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La langue des calculs, ouvrage posthume et élémentaire, imprimé sur les manuscrits autographes de l'auteur" Dans lequel des observations, faites sur les commencemens et les progrès de cette langue, démontrent les vices des langues vulgaires, et font... - [THE LANGUAGE OF ALGEBRA]
Paris, Charles Houel, an VI de la République (=1798). 8vo. Recent simple brown half cloth w. gilt title to spine. Uncut. Title-page w. large damp-stain, next few leaves w. a bit of soiling to upper corner. Occasinal brownspotting. Every gathering extended and re-inforced at hinge, probably in order to make the book open to its full extent. (2), 484, (1, -errata) pp.
The true first edition of this posthumously published major treatise, Condillac's final main work, which proved to be one of his most important and influential ones. The work was originally published both separately, as it is here, with its own errata-leaf and title-page without mentioning of volume number for the Oeuvres, and as the final volume of his ""Oeuvres philosophiques"".Having realized that other philosophers' accounts of knowledge had failed because they focused on the essences instead of the origins, Condillac, in all of his major treatises, set out to define moral and metaphysical problems as precisely as one can define the problems of geometry, and the approach that would enable this would be analytic. In the same stroke he would correct Locke's mistake of ""Internal sense"", the distinction between the process of sensation and of reflection. ""His instrument was a highly original theory of language as the analyst of experience. It is by the mind's capacity to invent and manipulate symbols of uniform and determinate significance that it passes from sensation to reflection and communication and hence to effective knowledge... By identifying the operations of language as the cause of intellectual functions, Condillac intended to be making the kind of statement Newton had made when he identified gravity as the cause of planetary motion - an exact and verifiable generalization of phenomenal effects. "" (D.S.B. III:381). It is in his last major work that Condillac deals most thoroughly with the analysis of language and the language of algebra. Algebra is the language of mathematics, and it is the only language that is well done (""bien faite""), nothing in this language is arbitrary" the analogies of this language are always precise and lead on to new sensible expressions" in this language the purpose is not to learn to speak like others, the purpose is to speak in the greater analogy in order to reach a greater precision. Algebra, the language of mathematics, is a language of analogies. Analogy, which constitute this language, also constitutes the methods. ""L'analogie: viola donc à quoi se réduit tout l'art de raisonner, comme tout l'art de parler"" et dans ce seul mot, nous voyons comment nous pouvons nous instruire des découvertes des autres, et comment nous en pouvons faire nous-mêmes.""(= ""The analogy: now, this is what the entire art of reasoning as well as the entire art of talking can be reduced to"" and with this single word we see how we can guide the discoveries of others, and how we can do them ourselves. [own translation]"" (p. 7). And thus, the objective of this work is to see how it will be possible to give to other sciences the same exactness as that which we otherwise believe exclusively to be a part of mathematics, namely the exactness of the language of algebra.""It was through his last works -""La logique"" and, especially, ""La langue des calculs""- that Condillac exercised the most decisive influence on the philosophical taste of the generation of scientists immediately following his own. Therein, like his predecessors in the rationalist tradition, he looked to mathematics as the exemplar of knowledge. He parted company with them, however, in developing the preference he had expressed in his early work for the analytic over the synthetic mode of reasoning."" (D.S.B."" III:382). Algebra, seen as both a language and as the method of analysis, in comparison to the inaccurate instrument that is ordinary language would reveal to Condillac what is the difference between the problems of science and those of society, the moral and metaphysical ones. ""And in that comparison Condillac's philosophy entered into the reforming mission of the Enlightenment, the central imperative of the rationalism then having been to reduce the imperfections of human arrangements by approximating them to the natural and to educate the human understanding in the grammar of nature. In Franceat least, the congruence of Condillac's philosophy of science with the broader commitments of progressive culture recommended it so scientists themselves as the most authoritative reading of Newtonian methodology... The terminology and symbolism of the modern science of chemistry are examples still alive in science of the practicality of this program."" (D.S.B., III:382). Condillac's philosophy of science was considered the most authoritative reading of Newtonian methodology. Among many others Lavoicier and other protagonists of the chemical revolution were influenced by his reform of nomenclature, as were and are botanists, zoologists and geometrics by his scientific explanations. His psychological empiricism is now considered the first positivist account of science.Condillac was one of the greatest French philosophers of the Enlightenment. He was friends with Rousseau and Diderot and was a forerunner in the junction between epistemology and philosophy, which was inspired by Locke and Newton, as the two sciences almost merged into one in this period. ""Condillac contibuted to the synthesis more decisively than did any other writer."" (D.S.B. III:380).
Origin and Nature of Language and Logic. Perspectives in Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought
, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xiv + 422 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503588926.
Summary The annual colloquium of the SIEPM in Freiburg, Germany, was groundbreaking in that it featured a more or less equal number of talks on all three medieval cultures that contributed to the formation of Western philosophical thought, the Islamic, Jewish, and Christian traditions. Indeed, the subject of the colloquium, 'The Origin and Nature of Language and Logic in Medieval Islamic, Jewish, and Christian Thought', lent itself to such a cross-cultural approach. In all these traditions, partially inspired by ancient Greek philosophy, partially by other sources, language and thought, semantics and logic occupied a central place. As a result, the chapters of the present volume effortlessly traverse philosophical, religious, cultural, and linguistic boundaries and thus in many respects open up new perspectives. It should not be surprising if readers delight in chapters of a philosophical tradition outside of their own as much as they do in those in their area of expertise. Among the topics discussed are the significance of language for logic; the origin of language: inspiration or convention; imposition or coinage; the existence of an original language; the correctness of language; divine discourse; animal language; the meaningfulness of animal sounds; music as communication; the scope of dialectical disputation; the relation between rhetoric and demonstration; the place of logic and rhetoric in theology; the limits of human knowledge; the meaning of categories; the problem of metaphysical entailment; the need to disentangle the metaphysical implications of language; the quantification of predicates; and the significance of linguistic custom for judging logical propositions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Nadja Germann and Steven Harvey, Introduction 1. The Origin and Nature of Human Language Pierre Larcher, Et Allah apprit Adam tous les noms? (Cor., 2, 31) : L'Origine du langage dans la pens e islamique Warren Zev Harvey, Three Medieval Jewish Philosophers on the Hebrew Language Aviram Ravitsky, Maimonides' Linguistic Thought and Its Greek, Islamic and Jewish Background Beata Sheyhatovitch, The Notion of Wa?? in Shar? al-K??ya by Ra?? al-D?n al-Astar?b?dh? Josef Stern, Profayt Duran's Ma?aseh Efod: The Philosophical Grammar of a Converso 2. Non-Human and Non-Verbal Communication Ziad Bou Akl, Dieu comme locuteur : le bay?n et son report dans les u??l al-?qh Luis Xavier L pez-Farjeat, The 'Language' of Non-Human Animals in al-F?r?b? and Avicenna Th r se-Anne Druart, What Does Music Have To Do With Language, Logic, and Rulership? Al-F?r?b?'s Answer 3. The Nature, Kinds, and Limits of Logic Laurent Cesalli, De quibus est logica ? La position de Gauthier Burley dans le d bat m di val Fouad Ben Ahmed, Ibn ?uml?s on Dialectical Reasoning: The Extent of His Reliance on al-F?r?b? and Averroes Catherine K nig-Pralong, Roger Bacon. Rh torique et sens litt ral Peter S. Eardley, Rhetoric and the Epistemic Status of Theology in the Late-Thirteenth Century Yehuda Halper, Abraham Bibago on the Logic of Divine Science: Metaphysics ? and the Legend of the Pardes 4. The Signi?cance of Language for Logic Pasquale Porro, Keeping Language under Control: Late-Antique and Medieval Interpretations of the First Chapter of Aristotle's Categories Margaret Cameron, The Constraints of Nature(s): Abelard on Modality, Understanding and Linguistic Meaning Charles H. Manekin, Logic, Linguistic Custom, and the Quanti?cation of the Predicate in Gersonides
Omkring Sprogteoriens Grundlæggelse. [Prolegomena to a Theory of Language]. - [THE STARTING POINT OF LINGUISTIC ANALYSIS]
København [Copenhagen], 1943. Lex8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. Spine and part of back wrapper faded, otherwise very nice and clean. 116 pp.
The seminal first edition of this breakthrough work in linguistics, which constitutes the basis of linguistic analysis and served as a main inspiration for Derrida's ""De la Grammatologie"". In 1943 the first edition of the main work of the great Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) appeared. The work appeared in the series ""Festskrift udgivet af Københavns Universitet i Anledning af Universitetets Aarsfest"" and bore the title ""Omkring Sprogteoriens Grundlæggelse"". The work was translated into English as ""Prolegomena to a Theory of Language"" and later into French as ""Prolegomenes a une theorie du langage "". This work came to represent a breakthrough in linguistics and formed an entirely new branch of this field.Hjelmslev had studied comparatvive linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, when in 1931 he co-founded the ""Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague"", also known as the ""Copenhagen School of Linguistics"" with Viggo Brøndal (1887-1942). Hjelmslev's linguistic theories formed the basis of this seminal scool, which soon became one of the most important centres of structuralism in the world. The single most important cornerstone of this internationally highly influential school was the new theory on language that Hjelmslev had developed together with Hans-Jørgen Uldall. This theory consisted in the double duality of the linguistic sign and is now known as ""Glossematics"", a now generally used term, which was coined by the two. ""Glossematics"" represents an attempt to analyze the contents and the form of language on a coherent basis. Hjelmslev's theories of semiotics became hugely influential, and virtually all of the greatest European thinkers interested in language and theories of language throughout the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s were hugely inflenced by Hjemslev, whose theories remain of seminal character to this day.In his main work, ""Prolegomena to a Theory of Language"", Hjelmslev begins by ascertaining that ""- Language - human speech - is an inexhaustible wealth of manifold values. Language is inseparably linked to man and follows him in all of his doing. Language is the tool with which man moulds thought and feeling, mood, aspiring, will and action, the tool with which he influences and is influenced, the last and deepest condition of human society. [...]"" (""- Sproget - mennesketalen - er en uudtømmelig rigdom af mangfoldige værdier. Sproget er uadskillelig knyttet til mennesket og følger ham I al hans færd. Sproget er det redskab hvormed mennesket former tanke og følelse, stemning, stræben, vilje og handling, det redskab hvormad han paavirker og paavirkes, menneskesamfundets sidste og dybeste forudsætning."" p. (5) ). He then goes on to unfold a criticism of the linguistic methodologies in use at the time. He accepts Saussure's theories of language as a system of signs, the leading theories in this field at the time, but he claims that this only applies to theories of language use. Hjelmslev, however, wishes to establish a regular linguistic system, in which language is seen as a complex system made up of small units. He sees earlier linguistic methodologies as being merely descriptive, and as the first, he wishes to provide a methodology that is systematizing and provide a linguistic theory that is to found the basis of a rational form of linguistics. The theory that Hjelmslev thus develops here came to constitute an important contribution to modern general epistemology, a contribution that likewise constitutes the starting point of linguistic analysis. Linguistic analysis is set off with the theory propounded in this work that a sign not merely refers to one form, but to two, namely a content form and an expression form. At the same time, every function of a sign is twofold in that it is manifested by both the content substance and the expression substance, the first being the psychological manifestation of the sign, the second being the material substance, in which the sign is manifested. Thus, Hjelmslev puts forth a new form of semiotics, one in which language and linguistics are not necessarily bound to a spoken language, and one which is constituted by a scientific method of analysis. Because of this theory, a new philosophical tradition also sees the light of day, one inspired by the opposition to the widely accepted idea that images, in order to be understood, had to be translated into a phonetic substance or something more concrete. For Hjelmslev, the linguist finds meaning in from the form of content, and it is from the point of view of this form that the content substance must be analyzed. This theory deeply influenced both Deleuze, who often mentions Hjelmslev throughout his works, and Derrida, who's ""Grammatologie"" is deeply inspired by Hjelmslev's work, to which it bears numerous references and long quotations.
Omkring Sprogteoriens Grundlæggelse. [Prolegomena to a Theory of Language].
København [Copenhagen], Bianco Luno,1943. Lex8vo. Uncut in the original printed wrappers. The first upper right corners a bit bumped. Clean. 116 pp.
The seminal first edition of this breakthrough work in linguistics, which constitutes the basis of linguistic analysis and served as a main inspiration for Derrida's ""De la Grammatologie"". In 1943 the first edition of the main work of the great Danish linguist Louis Hjelmslev (1899-1965) appeared. The work appeared in the series ""Festskrift udgivet af Københavns Universitet i Anledning af Universitetets Aarsfest"" and bore the title ""Omkring Sprogteoriens Grundlæggelse"". The work was translated into English as ""Prolegomena to a Theory of Language"" and later into French as ""Prolegomenes a une theorie du langage "". This work came to represent a breakthrough in linguistics and formed an entirely new branch of this field.Hjelmslev had studied comparatvive linguistics in Copenhagen, Prague and Paris, when in 1931 he co-founded the ""Cercle Linguistique de Copenhague"", also known as the ""Copenhagen School of Linguistics"" with Viggo Brøndal (1887-1942). Hjelmslev's linguistic theories formed the basis of this seminal scool, which soon became one of the most important centres of structuralism in the world. The single most important cornerstone of this internationally highly influential school was the new theory on language that Hjelmslev had developed together with Hans-Jørgen Uldall. This theory consisted in the double duality of the linguistic sign and is now known as ""Glossematics"", a now generally used term, which was coined by the two. ""Glossematics"" represents an attempt to analyze the contents and the form of language on a coherent basis. Hjelmslev's theories of semiotics became hugely influential, and virtually all of the greatest European thinkers interested in language and theories of language throughout the 30s, 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s were hugely inflenced by Hjemslev, whose theories remain of seminal character to this day.In his main work, ""Prolegomena to a Theory of Language"", Hjelmslev begins by ascertaining that ""- Language - human speech - is an inexhaustible wealth of manifold values. Language is inseparably linked to man and follows him in all of his doing. Language is the tool with which man moulds thought and feeling, mood, aspiring, will and action, the tool with which he influences and is influenced, the last and deepest condition of human society. [...]"" (""- Sproget - mennesketalen - er en uudtømmelig rigdom af mangfoldige værdier. Sproget er uadskillelig knyttet til mennesket og følger ham I al hans færd. Sproget er det redskab hvormed mennesket former tanke og følelse, stemning, stræben, vilje og handling, det redskab hvormad han paavirker og paavirkes, menneskesamfundets sidste og dybeste forudsætning."" p. (5) ). He then goes on to unfold a criticism of the linguistic methodologies in use at the time. He accepts Saussure's theories of language as a system of signs, the leading theories in this field at the time, but he claims that this only applies to theories of language use. Hjelmslev, however, wishes to establish a regular linguistic system, in which language is seen as a complex system made up of small units. He sees earlier linguistic methodologies as being merely descriptive, and as the first, he wishes to provide a methodology that is systematizing and provide a linguistic theory that is to found the basis of a rational form of linguistics. The theory that Hjelmslev thus develops here came to constitute an important contribution to modern general epistemology, a contribution that likewise constitutes the starting point of linguistic analysis. Linguistic analysis is set off with the theory propounded in this work that a sign not merely refers to one form, but to two, namely a content form and an expression form. At the same time, every function of a sign is twofold in that it is manifested by both the content substance and the expression substance, the first being the psychological manifestation of the sign, the second being the material substance, in which the sign is manifested. Thus, Hjelmslev puts forth a new form of semiotics, one in which language and linguistics are not necessarily bound to a spoken language, and one which is constituted by a scientific method of analysis. Because of this theory, a new philosophical tradition also sees the light of day, one inspired by the opposition to the widely accepted idea that images, in order to be understood, had to be translated into a phonetic substance or something more concrete. For Hjelmslev, the linguist finds meaning in from the form of content, and it is from the point of view of this form that the content substance must be analyzed. This theory deeply influenced both Deleuze, who often mentions Hjelmslev throughout his works, and Derrida, who's ""Grammatologie"" is deeply inspired by Hjelmslev's work, to which it bears numerous references and long quotations.
Latin Grammar (Advanced Language S) - reprint 1998
BLOOMSBURY 3PL 1998 546 pages 13 8x21 4x3 2cm. 1998. Broché. 546 pages.
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