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The Pulitzer Prize finalist and author of The Pale King and Infinite Jest weighs in on a philosophical controversy in this fascinating early work. In 1962, the philosopher Richard Taylor used six commonly accepted presuppositions to imply that human beings have no control over the future. David Foster Wallace not only took issue with Taylor's method, which, according to him, scrambled the relations of logic, language, and the physical world, but also detected a semantic trick at the heart of Tay

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Author

David Foster Wallace; Steven M. Cahn; Maureen Eckert; Jay L. Garfield; James Ryerson

Publisher

Columbia University Press

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9780231527071

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Linguistics, Literary Criticism, Poetry

Rating

3.74 / 5 (361 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14