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Gyorgy Tamas works in the philosophy of logic, that difficult
interdisciplin ary region wherein the notion of categories is both
basic and subtle. To understand ways of thinking, to understand
patterns of whatever is real, to recognize what is possible and to
reject the nonsensical and the impossible is to comprehend the
categories. This was a in thought and in fact, recurring motive of
European thought from the earliest self-aware beginnings, and Tamas
knows that history well, as his critical respect demonstrates.
Ancient, medieval, and modern thinkers appear in this book, set
forth in their own words; and likewise we see that Tamas has built
upon the historians and commentators, upon the pioneering
historical investigation of the categories by Trendelenburg a
century ago and by Bochenski in our days. Tamas has two principal
goals here: to investigate the logic, which is to say the structure
and the relations, of the philosophical categories; and to set
forth the logic of thought which may then be based upon the
critically established system of categories obtained by that
investigation. Ancillary but of striking value is his style of
historical relevance which enables the reader to engage in a
discussion that is both analytically sharp and developmentally
insightful. Furthermore, Tamas draws upon his contem porary
colleagues with similar critical respect: Lukasiewicz, Quine,
Patzig, Menne, Tavanets and others."
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