Ineffability and Philosophy

This book asks whether the notion of there being a truth, or a state of affairs, or knowledge that can't be expressed linguistically is a coherent notion.

André Kukla is a professor in the Departments of Philosophy and Psychology of the University of Toronto. He is the author of Studies in Scientific Realism (1998), Social Constructivism and the Philosophy of Science (2000) and Methods of Theoretical Psychology (2001).

Preface Part 1. Ineffability: The Very Idea 1.1 Indescribable Entities 1.2 The Tarskian Approach 1.3 Four of Five Grades of Ineffability 1.4 Untranslatable Languages 1.5 Inexpressible Facts 1.6 Is the Tarskian Criterion of Ineffability Vacuous? Part 2: Mysticism, Epistemic Boundedness and Ineffability 2.1 The Argument from Epistemic Boundedness 2.2 The Argument from Mysticism Part 3: Believing the Mystic Part 4: Five Types of Ineffability 4.1 Unrepresentability 4.2 Unabducibility 4.3 Unselectability and Unexecutability 4.4 Unreportability