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Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy Hardcover - 1996 - 1996th Edition
by Jaakko Hintikka
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An outside observer looking at the contemporary scene in philosophy may very well be excused if his or her first impression is of people talking past each other.
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The essays collected here explore a fundamental contrast between two overall visions of language and its availability to self-examination. They can be characterized as "language as the universal medium" and "language as calculus" (or the model-theoretical view). The former normally includes the ineffability of semantics and a one-world ontology. This contrast has dominated twentieth-century philosophy but has scarcely been acknowledged before. Tarski's famous result concerning the indefinability of truth seems to decide the issue in favor of the universalists. Hintikka nevertheless shows that Tarski's result is inconclusive and that truth can in fact be defined in languages which are in certain respects comparable to ordinary language. This unique volume is a must for every contemporary philosopher and for everyone interested in the semantics of our language.
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- Title Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
- Author Jaakko Hintikka
- Binding Hardcover
- Edition number 1996th
- Edition 1996
- Pages 270
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Springer
- Date 1996-11-30
- Illustrated Yes
- Features Bibliography, Illustrated
- ISBN 9780792342465 / 0792342461
- Weight 1.27 lbs (0.58 kg)
- Dimensions 9.5 x 6.42 x 0.89 in (24.13 x 16.31 x 2.26 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: Modern
- Library of Congress subjects Truth, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 96045990
- Dewey Decimal Code 198.8
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