Fate, time, and language : an essay on free will ; David Foster Wallace
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Fate, time, and language : an essay on free will ; David Foster Wallace
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- Fate, time, and language : an essay on free will ; David Foster Wallace
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- an essay on free will ; David Foster Wallace
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- edited by Steven M. Cahn and Maureen Eckert ; introduction by James Ryerson ; epilogue by Jay Garfield
- Language
- eng
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- Long before he published Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace wrote a brilliant critique of Richard Taylor's argument for fatalism. In 1962, Taylor used six commonly-accepted presuppositions to imply that humans have no control over the future. Not only did Wallace take issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but he also called out a semantic trick that lie at the heart of Taylor's argument. Wallace was a great skeptic of abstract thinking as a negation of something more genuine and real. He w
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- Dewey number
- 123
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- no index present
- LC call number
- BJ1461.T293
- LC item number
- F38 2011
- Literary form
- non fiction
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