Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy / by Jaakko Hintikka.

R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history. He also noted that such ultimate presupposi...

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Main Author: Hintikka, Jaakko (Author)
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 1997.
Edition:1st ed. 1997.
Series:Jaakko Hintikka Selected Papers ; 2
Springer eBook Collection.
Subjects:
Language and languages—Philosophy.
Modern philosophy.
Semantics.
Logic.
Electronic resources (E-books)
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Table of Contents:
  • 1. “Contemporary Philosophy and the Problem of Truth”
  • 2. “Is Truth Ineffable?”
  • 3. “Defining Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth”
  • 4. “On the Development of the Model-Theoretic Viewpoint in Logical Theory”
  • 5. “The Place of C.S. Peirce in the History of Logical Theory”
  • 6. (with Merrill B. Hintikka) “Wittgenstein and Language as the Universal Medium”
  • 7. “Carnap’s Work in the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics in a Historical Perspective”
  • 8. “Quine as a Member of the Tradition of the Universality of Language”
  • Appendixes
  • 1. Jean van Heijenoort, “Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language”
  • 2. Martin Kusch, “Husserl and Heidegger on Meaning”.

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