Contents

Preface
1.Ineffability—the very idea
Indescribable entities
The Tarskian approach
Four or five grades of ineffability
Untranslatable languages
Inexpressible facts
Is the Tarskian criterion of ineffability vacuous?
2.Mysticism, epistemic boundedness, and ineffability
The argument from epistemic boundedness
The argument from mysticism
3.Believing the mystic
4.Five types of ineffability
Unrepresentability
Unabducibility
Unselectability and unexecutability
Unreportability
References
Index