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This ebook discusses various vital concerns in present philosophical paintings at the nature of attainable worlds. components investigated contain the theories of the character of attainable worlds, normal questions about metaphysical research and questions about the course of dependence among what's invaluable or attainable and what will be.
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Ut doesn't the speaker also have to take into account the point of view of the listener and understander? Isn't i t possible that here, exactly, i s where the normative identity of a linguistic form comes into force? This, too, is not quite so. The basic task of understanding does not at all amount to recognizing the linguistic form used by the speaker as the familiar, "that very same," form, the way we distinctly recognize, for instance, a signal that we have not quite become used to or a form in a language that we do not know very well.
SynchronfcaHy, are in a position of mutual een that particular formula or system and another, subsequent formula or indispensability and complementariness, whereby they transform language into an orderly system pervaded by laws of a specifically linguistic nature. This speA rough analogy can be used here that will adequately portray the attitude of cifically linguistic systematicity, in distinction from the systematicity o f ideolnd trend of thought in the philosophy of language toward the history of ogy-of cognition, creative art, and ethics-cannot become a motive for the in.
The Vedic priest and the contemporary philologist-linguist are spellbound and held captive in their thinking about language by one and the same phenomenon-the phenomenon of alien, foreign-language word. 7. According to Vedic religion, the sacred word-in that usage to which it is put by the "gnostic" consecrated priest -becomes the sovereign of all Being) including both gods and men. The priest-gnostic is defined here as the one who commands the word-therein lies all his power. The doctrine to this effect is contained already in the Rig Veda.