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Dejan Makovec suggests that the acquaintance with Gilbert Ryle and his conception of philosophy as cartography around 1945 breathed new life into Waismann’s idea of a multi-layered structure of language. A notebook on language strata from Waismann’s Nachlass shows that the metaphor is explicitly geological in analogy to sedimentary strata, adding depth to Ryle’s two-dimensional view of philosophy and language. Makovec concludes that “Language Strata” is a blueprint for Waismann’s projectionism, an alternative to the reductionist projects of his time.
For helpful comments on previous versions of this introduction I am very grateful to Michael Beaney, Katharina Bernhard, Brian Bix, Annalisa Coliva, Eugen Fischer, Christoph Limbeck-Lilienau, Johannes Morgenbesser, Katherine Morris, Lauriane Piette, Mirjam Pot, Graham Priest, Jacob Rump, Michael Ruthensteiner, Therese Sampietro, Constantine Sandis, Severin Schroeder, Stewart Shapiro, Bastian Stoppelkamp, Christof Šubik, Leonie Toggenburg, and Harry Tomany.
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Makovec, D. (2019). Introduction: Waismann’s Rocky Strata. In: Makovec, D., Shapiro, S. (eds) Friedrich Waismann. History of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-25008-9_1
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