From a Logical Point of View
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From a Logical Point of View

Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition

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eBook - PDF

From a Logical Point of View

Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition

About this book

These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references—semantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed? And what considerations may suitably guide us in accepting or revising such ontological commitments? These are among the questions dealt with in this book, particular attention being devoted to the role of abstract entities in mathematics. There is speculation on the mechanism whereby objects of one sort or another come to be posited, a process in which the notion of identity plays an important part.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Chapter I. On what there is
  7. Chapter II. Two dogmas of empiricism
  8. Chapter III. The problem of meaning in linguistics
  9. Chapter IV. Identity, ostension, and hypostasis
  10. Chapter V. New foundations for mathematical logic
  11. Chapter VI. Logic and the reification of universals
  12. Chapter VII. Notes on the theory of reference
  13. Chapter VIII. Reference and modality
  14. Chapter IX. Meaning and existential inference
  15. Origins of the essays
  16. Bibliographical references
  17. Index