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1 online resource (viii, 252 pages) : illustrations |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
| Contents |
The background. Introduction / Steven M. Cahn -- Fatalism / Richard Taylor -- Professor Taylor on fatalism / John Turk Saunders -- Fatalism and ability / Richard Taylor -- Fatalism and ability II / Peter Makepeace -- Fatalism and linguistic reform / John Turk Saunders -- Fatalism and Professor Taylor / Bruce Aune -- Taylor's fatal fallacy / Raziel Abelson -- A note on fatalism / Richard Taylor -- Tautology and fatalism / Richard Sharvy -- Fatalistic arguments / Steven Cahn -- Comment / Richard Taylor -- Fatalism and ordinary language / John Turk Saunders -- Fallacies in Taylor's "fatalism" / Charles D. Brown -- The essay. Renewing the fatalist conversation / Maureen Eckert -- Richard Taylor's "fatalism" and the semantics of physical modality / David Foster Wallace -- Epilogue. David Foster Wallace as student: a memoir / Jay Garfield. |
| Summary |
Long before he published Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote a brilliant critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In 1962, Taylor used six commonly-accepted presuppositions to imply that humans have no control over the future. Not only did Wallace take issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but he also called out a semantic trick that lie at the heart of Taylor's argument. Wallace was a great skeptic of abstract thinking as a negation of something more genuine and real. He w. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Taylor, Richard, 1919-2003. Fatalism.
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Fate and fatalism.
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Fate and fatalism. |
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Semantics.
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Semantics. |
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Electronic books.
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Cahn, Steven M.
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Eckert, Maureen, 1966-
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Wallace, David Foster.
Richard Taylor's "Fatalism" and the semantics of physical modality.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fate, time, and language. New York : Columbia University Press, ©2011 023115156X (DLC) 2010022971 (OCoLC)635463859 |
| ISBN |
9780231527071 (electronic book) |
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0231527071 (electronic book) |
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9780231151566 (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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023115156X (cloth ; alkaline paper) |
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9780231151573 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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0231151578 (paperback ; alkaline paper) |
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EB00640066 Recorded Books |
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