Language, Logic and Method

Language, Logic and Method edited by Robert S. Cohen, Marx W. Wartofsky.

Fundamental problems of the uses of formal techniques and of natural and instrumental practices have been raised again and again these past two decades, in many quarters and from varying viewpoints. We have brought a number of quite basic studies of these issues together in this volume, not linked c...

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Other Authors: Cohen, Robert S. (Editor), Wartofsky, Marx W. (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1983.
Edition:1st ed. 1983.
Series:Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 31
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Philosophy and science.
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Linguistics.
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Table of Contents:
  • Scales of Measurement
  • Some Logical Problems Suggested by Empirical Theories
  • Comments on ‘Some Logical Problems Suggested by Empirical Theories’ by Professor Dalla Chaiara
  • A Methodology without Methodological Rules
  • Truth, Fallibility and the Growth of Knowledge
  • Fallible Is as Fallible Does: Comments on Professor Levi’s Paper
  • Knowledge in Pursuit of Knowledge — A Few Worries: Comments on Professor Levi’s Paper
  • Response to Scheffler
  • Response to Margalit
  • Rejoinder to Levi’s Reply
  • A Category-Theoric Approach to Systems in a Fuzzy World
  • Natural Languages and Formal Languages and Formal Languages: A Tenable Dualism
  • The Problem of Vague Predicates
  • Peirce and Pearson: Pragmatism vs. Instrumentalism
  • Theory of Propensity: A New Foundation of Logic
  • Gödel’s Theorems and Church’s Thesis: A Prologue to mechanism
  • The Non-traditional Theory of Quantifiers
  • Dialogue: How Do We Know What Others Mean and Why?
  • Towards a Richer Theory of Dialogue: Comments of Professor Rivetti Barbòs Paper
  • Index of Names.

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