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Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language - An Enquiry into the Contemporary Views on Universals (Hardcover, 1967 ed.)
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Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language - An Enquiry into the Contemporary Views on Universals (Hardcover, 1967 ed.)
Series: Synthese Library, 13
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It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the
ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the
tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems. Unlike
the "conti nental" reader for whom this work was originally
written, the English speaking reader will be more familiar with
most of the philosophers dis cussed in this book, and he will in
general not be tempted to dismiss them indiscriminately as
"positivists" and "nominalists." But the English version of this
study may help to redress the balance in another respect. In view
of the present emphasis on ordinary language and the wide spread
tendency to leave the mathematical logicians alone with their
technicalities, it seems not without merit to revive the interest
in formal ontology and the construction of formal systems. A closer
look at the historical account which will be given here, may
convince the reader that there are several points in the historical
develop ment whose consequences have not yet been fully assessed: I
mention, e. g., the shift from the traditional three-level
semantics of sense and deno tation to the contemporary two-level
semantics of representation; the relation of extensional structure
and intensional content in the extensional systems of Wittgenstein
and Carnap; the confusing changes in labelling the different kinds
of analytic and apriori true sentences; etc. Among the
philosophically interesting tools of symbolic logic Lesniewski's
calculus of names deserves special attention."
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