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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.

From the rear cover

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)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: Modern
  • Library of Congress subjects Truth, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 96045990
  • Dewey Decimal Code 198.8

About the author

Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

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