The Evolution of Modern Metaphysics: Making Sense of Things (167 page)

his conception of necessity
67
,
75
,
78
–83,
96
,
112
,
114
,
202
,
266
,
315
,
335

his idealism/monadology
41
,
71
–76,
84
,
87
,
122nn38
,
39
,
227
,
258
,
379n19
,
403n99
,
443n43
,
455
–456,
463n11
,
474
,
517
,
550
,
551n27
,
563
,
597

his notion of a possible world
69
–83 passim,
335
,
340
,
343
,
550
–551,
599

his notion of compossibility
72
,
75
–77,
551n27

his use of the principle of sufficient reason
67
–68,
76
,
80n33
,
81
,
114n18
,
202n22
,
554
,
556

his view that every truth is ‘analytic’
79
–81,
113
–114

Levinas, Emmanuel
529n49

Lewis, David
18
,
205n31
,
329
–344 passim,
348
,
399n84
,
419n34
,
482
–483,
555n40
,
596
,
602

his approach to metaphysics and philosophy
10n17
,
332
–335,
340
–341,
357

his notion of a possible world
82n41
,
333n10
,
335
–339,
414
–417

in relation to Quine
329
–337,
406n1
,
602

Lichtenstein, Roy
587n5

Limit Argument
10
,
34
,
135
–136,
154
,
164
–165,
214
–215,
234
,
244
–245,
270n51
,
299
–300,
316n37
,
361
–362,
450
,
491
,
579

See also
Division Principle
,
Limit-Drawing Principle
,
limits problematically construed as limitations

Limit-Drawing Principle
135
–136,
234
,
300

limitations.
See
limits problematically construed as limitations

limits of sense-making.

Wittgenstein on the limits of sense-making

limits problematically construed as limitations
10
,
34
,
136
–138,
164
–165,
214
–215,
234
,
243
–245,
248
,
251
,
264
,
266
,
268n43
,
270
,
300
,
361
–363,
386n43
,
449
–450,
454
–455,
490
,
579

See also
Limit Argument

linguistic frameworks.

Carnap’s idea of a linguistic framework

linguistic sense
91
–92,
101
–102,
183
–184,
196
–199 passim,
209
–211,
217
–220,
236
–237,
243
,
258
–259,
261
,
280
–282,
297
–300,
303n3
,
304
,
313
–318 passim,
346
–351,
356
–357,
361
–362,
366
–367,
431
,
499
–500,
512
,
519n22
,
520(
–521),
26
,
521
–526,
531
–539 passim,
569
,
592
,
598

compared with propositional sense
346n7
,
361n51
,
371
,
512n2

Derrida’s notions of
SPEECH
and
WRITING
Frege’s sense/
Bedeutung
distinction

See also
nonsense
,
propositional sense and sense-making
,
semantic empiricism

linguistic turn
196
–197,
199
,
203n26

Lloyd, Genevieve
51n30

Locke, John
15n30
,
21
,
87n2

logic: Frege on the nature of

Frege on the nature of logic Hegel’s Hegel’s logic Wittgenstein’s early conception of Wittgenstein’s early conception of logic. Dummett on the relation between logic and metaphysics Frege’s view that arithmetic is a branch of logic

See also
bivalence
,
principle of contradiction

Dummett on the relation between logic and metaphysics Frege’s view that arithmetic is a branch of logic

See also
principle of contradiction

logical positivism
78
–80,
227n21
,
279
–281,
284n12
,
288n25
,
290
,
296
–303,
311
,
312
–313,
315(
–316),
37
,
316n38
,
318n43
,
330
–331,
347
–348,
378
,
385n40
,
449
,
506
–507,
601
–602

Hume as a forerunner of

Hume as a forerunner of logical positivism nonsense
vis-à-vis
nonsense
vis-à-vis
logical positivism. A.J. Ayer Rudolf Carnap Moritz Schlick

See also
Vienna Circle

Lowe, E.J.
13n26
,
63n61

McDonald, Peter
524n34

McDowell, John
41n38
,
93n20
,
134n67
,
314n31
,
325
–326,
330n2
,
343n29
,
346n5
,
353n31
,
429n1

McGuiness, Brian
231n28

making sense (of …).
See
making sense of making sense

sense-making

making sense of making sense: as an integral part of metaphysics
7
–8,
71
,
109
,
192
,
220
–221,
319
–320,
327
,
348
–349,
456
,
472
,
496
,
507

in application to particular non-metaphysical sense-making (e.g. making sense of making ethical sense, making sense of making mathematical sense)
66
,
216
,
243
,
247
,
253
,
259
–260,
326
,
346
–349,
361
,
371
,
378
,
429
,
432
–435,
444
,
446
,
455
,
462
,
582

in general
83
,
99
,
107
–109,
156
,
188
–192 passim,
220
–221,
310
–311,
324
,
326
–327,
343
–344,
378
,
429
,
431
,
445
–447,
449
,
455
–456,
461
–463,
519
,
554

Manicheism
57

Martin, Rex
511n36

Marx, Karl
601

material/formal distinction.

Carnap’s material/formal distinction

mathematics: its nature
60
–62,
95
,
98
–106 passim,
111
–117 passim,
138
–139,
185
,
201
,
272
–275 passim,
282
,
283
,
299
,
312
,
322
,
328n61
,
332
,
334
,
337
,
341
,
353
–359,
363
,
397n73
,
430
,
537n72
,
571n76

Wittgenstein on

Wittgenstein on mathematics. Frege’s view that arithmetic is a branch of logic

See also
calculus
,
Euclidean versus non-Euclidean geometries
,
geometry
,
set theory
,
topology