Causing, Perceiving and Believing - An Examination of the Philosophy of C. J. Ducasse (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975)

Although a succession of fashions swept the American philosophical scene, C. J. Ducasse was throughout his long career an effective practitioner of analytic philosophy in the classic tradition. As he explained in 1924 " i]t is only with truths about such questions as the meaning of the term 'true', or 'real', or 'good', and the like . . . that philosophy is concerned. " Such truths are to be discovered inductively by comparing and analyzing concrete cases of the admittedly proper u/le . . . The pressing problems of philosophy are thus in my view primarily problems of def'mition, and moreover, problems of framing def'mitions which must be in formal terms, under penalty of not being otherwise understandable by or acceptable to one or another philosophical school, since the formal elements of thought and tp. ey only are common to all schools. These def'mitions, of course are not to be arbitrary; their relation to the facts of admittedly meaningful linguistic usage is the same as exists between any scientific hypothesis and the facts which it attempts to 1 construe.

General

Imprint:	Springer
Country of origin:	Netherlands
Series:	Philosophical Studies Series, 6
Release date:	October 2011
First published:	1975
Editors:	Peter H. Hare • Edward H. Madden
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 12mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	218
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1975
ISBN-13:	978-9401017886
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General Books > Philosophy > Western philosophy > Modern Western philosophy, c 1600 to the present > Western philosophy, from c 1900 - > General
LSN:	9401017883
Barcode:	9789401017886

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