Beyond the Limits of ThoughtThis is a philosophical investigation of the nature of the limits of thought. Drawing on recent developments in the field of logic, Graham Priest shows that the description of such limits leads to contradiction, and argues that these contradictions are in fact veridical. Beginning with an analysis of the way in which these limits arise in pre-Kantian philosophy, Priest goes on to illustrate how the nature of these limits was theorised by Kant and Hegel. He offers new interpretations of Berkeley's master argument for idealism and Kant on the antimonies. He explores the paradoxes of self reference, and provides a unified account of the structure of such paradoxes. The book concludes by tracing the theme of the limits of thought in modern philosophy of language, including discussions of the ideas of Wittgenstein and Derrida. |
Contents
The limits of thought in preKantian philosophy | 9 |
The limits of iteration | 26 |
The limits of cognition | 43 |
The limits of conception | 61 |
The limits of thought in Kant and Hegel 770 | 79 |
Hegels infinities | 113 |
Limits and the paradoxes of selfreference | 123 |
Vicious circles | 141 |
Sets and classes | 172 |
Technical appendix | 188 |
Language and its limits | 195 |
Translation reference and truth | 214 |
Consciousness rules and différance | 229 |
The persistence of inclosure | 249 |
Bibliography | 257 |
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