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The Unnameable

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2020

Alasdair Urquhart
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Hans Herzberger as a philosopher and logician has shown deep interest both in the philosophy of Gottlob Frege, and in the topic of the inexpressible and the ineffable. In the fall of 1982, he taught at the University of Toronto, together with André Gombay, a course on Frege's metaphysics, philosophy of language, and foundations of arithmetic. Again, in the fall of 1986, he taught a seminar on the philosophy of language that dealt with ‘the limits of discursive symbolism in several domains of human experience.’ The course description continues by saying: ‘Special attention will be given to the paradoxes underlying various doctrines of the inexpressible and the tensions inherent in those paradoxes. Some doctrines of semantic, ethical and religious mysticism will be critically examined.'

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Canadian Journal of Philosophy Supplementary Volume , Volume 34: Truth and Values - Essays for Hans Herzberger , 2008 , pp. 119 - 135
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Copyright © The Authors 2008

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