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Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysi...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2011] ©2011 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Philosophische analyse / philosophical analysis;
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| Summary: |
Contemporary analytic philosophy can generally be characterized by the following tendencies: commitment to first-order predicate logic as the only viable formal logic; rejection of correspondence theories of truth; a view of existence as something expressed by the existential quantifier; a metaphysics that doesn t give the world as a whole its due. This book seeks to offer an alternative analytic theory, one that provides a unified account of what there is, how we speak about it, the underlying logic of our language, how the truth of what we say is determined, and the central role of the real world in all of this. The result is a robust account of reality. The inspiration for many of the ideas that constitute this overall theory comes from such sources as Aristotle, Leibniz, Ryle, and Sommers. |
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1 online resource (197 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110325829 |
| Index Number: | BD331 |
| CLC: | B016 |
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Frontmatter -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- PART ONE: SEIENDES STRUCTURAL ONTOLOGY -- PART TWO: SEIN METAPHYSICS AU MONDE -- Concluding Remarks -- APPENDICES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX. |