Abstract

Submitted to the University of Oxford in 1982, Geoffrey Klempner's D.Phil thesis is still arguably ahead of its time -- in its radical critique of theories of meaning and the proposal of an alternate 'dialectics' of language, its interpretation of the philosophies of Kant and Wittgenstein, and the treatment of realism about truth and meaning as a 'metaphysical illusion'.Geoffrey Klempner is Director of the Pathways School of Philosophy and founder member of the International Society for Philosophers.