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Necessity Lost - Modality and Logic in Early Analytic Philosophy, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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Necessity Lost - Modality and Logic in Early Analytic Philosophy, Volume 1 (Hardcover)
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A long tradition, going back to Aristotle, conceives of logic in
terms of necessity and possibility: a deductive argument is correct
if it is not possible for the conclusion to be false when the
premises are true. A relatively unknown feature of the analytic
tradition in philosophy is that, at its very inception, this
venerable conception of the relation between logic and necessity
and possibility - the concepts of modality - was put into question.
The founders of analytic philosophy, Gottlob Frege and Bertrand
Russell, held that these concepts are empty: there are no genuine
distinctions among the necessary, the possible, and the actual. In
this book, the first of two volumes, Sanford Shieh investigates the
grounds of this position and its consequences for Frege's and
Russell's conceptions of logic. The grounds lie in doctrines on
truth, thought, and knowledge, as well as on the relation between
mind and reality, that are central to the philosophies of Frege and
Russell, and are of enduring philosophical interest. The upshot of
this opposition to modality is that logic is fundamental, and, to
be coherent, modal concepts would have to be reconstructed in
logical terms. This rejection of modality in early analytic
philosophy remains of contemporary significance, though the
coherence of modal concepts is rarely questioned nowadays because
it is generally assumed that suspicion of modality derives from
logical positivism, which has not survived philosophical scrutiny.
The anti-modal arguments of Frege and Russell, however, have
nothing to do with positivism and remain a challenge to the
contemporary acceptance of modal notions.
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