Narrative Logic:A Semantic Analysis of the Historian's Language |
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... identified . A sortal concept un- able to give such specifications has to be regarded as meaningless , or , at least , as essentially incomplete . According to the fourth objection , the difficulty with the Nss is that the attempt to ...
... identified . A sortal concept un- able to give such specifications has to be regarded as meaningless , or , at least , as essentially incomplete . According to the fourth objection , the difficulty with the Nss is that the attempt to ...
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... identifying facts is impossible because every set of statements that might appear to identify a particular Ns can be part of an infinity of other Nss . The things historian H , mentions in order to characterize a certain historical ...
... identifying facts is impossible because every set of statements that might appear to identify a particular Ns can be part of an infinity of other Nss . The things historian H , mentions in order to characterize a certain historical ...
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... identification would be even easier than in our own universe where we can usually identify things in less than no time . I shall now give an example of a universe in which identification is more difficult than it happens to be in our ...
... identification would be even easier than in our own universe where we can usually identify things in less than no time . I shall now give an example of a universe in which identification is more difficult than it happens to be in our ...
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 6 |
THE IDEAL NARRATIO | 29 |
THE SENTENCE AND THE NARRATIO | 58 |
Copyright | |
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17th century acceptable actual argued argument Chapter Cold War conclusion contain correspondence course criteria of identity described descriptive discussion entelechy essence exact sciences explain externalist fact falsity French Revolution historian historical knowledge historical novel historical reality historiography historists human idea ideal narratio identify individual statements individual things instance intensional type interpretation kind language Leibniz's Leibniz's law linguistic Louis XIV meaning ments metaphorical statements monads N₁ narra narrative historiography narrative idealism narrative logic narrative realism narrative statements narrative substances narrativist philosophy narrativist universe notion Ns Iint objective narratio particular past personal identity philosophy of history point of view positivist possible predicates problem properties proposal question reductionist refer relevant Renaissance scientific scope sentences sets of statements Sirian social sortal concept speak specific speculative philosophies structure subject of change subject-term T₁ theory thesis tion translation rules true truth typification of Nss writing of history