VOL.LXI, No.24 - December 24, 1964 - Journal of Philosophy issue articles

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A philosophical journal issue presents a focus on indirect discourse through an inscriptional approach, centering on Marilyn P. Frye’s article “Inscriptions and Indirect Discourse.” The text advances a detailed analysis of how indirect quotation and that-clauses can be treated via concrete inscription replication, first recounting Israel Scheffler’s nominalistic framework and then evaluating its correctness against objections previously attributed to Church. The issue also lists related contributions and a volume index.

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Inscriptions and Indirect Discourse

Scheffler’s Nominalistic Analysis of Indirect Quotation

Evaluation of Correctness and Scope

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(foreign postage extra:annual,60 cents,single copies,15 cents) | THE JoURNAL OF PHILOSOPHY INSCRIPTIONS AND INDIRECT DISCOURSE* TN"An Inscriptional Approach to Indirect Quotation,"¹IsraelI Scheffler presented an analysis of sentences of the form‘...writes that ---'.He was primarily concerned to give a nominal-istic analysis of indirect discourse which would elude certain ob-jections offered by Church.Here the question is not whetherthe analysis eludes those criticisms.The question is whether theanalysis is correct.I shall argue that it is not 1.To discuss Scheffler's analysis I must first repeat his intro-duction of the terms in which it is stated.He reviews an approachto direct quotation and suggests an analogous approach to indirectquotation. We are invited to follow Goodman in treating so-called'in-seriptions”framed by quotes as conerete general terms rather

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What is the main topic of the provided article section?

The section focuses on an inscriptional approach to indirect quotation and indirect discourse, examining how sentences of the form “writes that …” should be analyzed.

How does the section describe Scheffler’s approach to indirect quotation?

It explains that Scheffler treats that-clauses as single predicates of concrete inscriptions, where each inscription denoted by a that-clause is a replica of the others, and the that-content is identified as the clause’s content excluding “that”.

What argument does the author make about Scheffler’s analysis?

The author argues that the analysis is not correct, shifting attention from whether it avoids Church’s objections to whether it truly matches the phenomena it aims to explain.

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