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Cambridge Studies in Philosophy Ser.: Paradoxes : A Study in form and Predication by James Cargile (1979, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCambridge University Press
ISBN-100521224756
ISBN-139780521224758
eBay Product ID (ePID)1478919
Product Key Features
Number of Pages328 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameParadoxes : a Study INFORM and Predication
SubjectEthics & Moral Philosophy, General, Logic
Publication Year1979
TypeTextbook
AuthorJames Cargile
Subject AreaPhilosophy
SeriesCambridge Studies in Philosophy Ser.
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight17.3 Oz
Item Length8.5 in
Item Width5.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN78-067299
Dewey Edition19
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal165
Table Of ContentPreface; Introduction; 1. Subject-predicate form; 2. Mill's theory of names; 3. Platonism; 4. Denotation and connotation; 5. Meinongianism; 6. Kinds of assertion and predication; 7. Semantic paradoxes; List of references; Index.
SynopsisThe ancient semantic paradoxes were thought to undermine the rationalist metaphysics of Plato, and their modern relatives have been used by Russell and others to administer some severe logical and epistemological shocks. These are not just tricks or puzzles, but are intimately connected with some of the liveliest and most basic philosophical disputes about logical form, universals, reference and predication. Dr Cargile offers here an original and sustained treatment of this range of issues, and in fact presents an unfashionable defence of a platonistic ontology. He argues that the paradoxes arise not from mistakes in classical assumptions about truth or from an ontology that includes propositions and properties, but from mistakes in describing what propositions and properties are conveyed by particular linguistic expressions. The book should interest, and may well surprise, philosophers and others concerned with semantics and the foundations of logic., Dr Cargile offers here an original and sustained treatment of a range of issues and in fact presents an unfashionable defence of a platonistic ontology. The book should interest, and may well surprise, philosophers and others concerned with semantics and the foundations of logic.
LC Classification NumberBC199.P2 C38
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