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Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language

An Enquiry into the Contemporary Views on Universals

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  1. Guido Küng
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Part of the book series: Synthese Library (SYLI, volume 13)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XI
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 1-20

  3. The Logistic Analysis of Language and the Relation of Representation

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 21-21
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    2. A Philosophical Revolution

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 23-29

    3. From the Theory of Knowledge to the Logical Analysis of Language

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 30-37

    4. From the Psychological Concept to the Graphical Sign

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 38-50

    5. The Relation of Representation

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 51-59

  4. The Relation of Representation of Predicate Signs and Contemporary Views on Universals

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 61-65
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    2. Bertrand Russell

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 66-79

    3. Ludwig Wittgenstein

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 80-85

    4. Rudolf Carnap

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 86-101

    5. Stanisław Leśniewski

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 102-126

    6. W. V. Quine and N. Goodman

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 127-160

    7. The Interpretations of Predicate Signs

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 161-179

    8. Conclusion

      • Guido Küng
      Pages 180-187

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 188-211
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About this book

It is the aim of the present study to introduce the reader to the ways of thinking of those contemporary philosophers who apply the tools of symbolic logic to classical philosophical problems. Unlike the "conti­ nental" reader for whom this work was originally written, the English­ speaking reader will be more familiar with most of the philosophers dis­ cussed in this book, and he will in general not be tempted to dismiss them indiscriminately as "positivists" and "nominalists". But the English version of this study may help to redress the balance in another respect. In view of the present emphasis on ordinary language and the wide­ spread tendency to leave the mathematical logicians alone with their technicalities, it seems not without merit to revive the interest in formal ontology and the construction of formal systems. A closer look at the historical account which will be given here, may convince the reader that there are several points in the historical develop­ ment whose consequences have not yet been fully assessed: I mention, e. g. , the shift from the traditional three-level semantics of sense and deno­ tation to the contemporary two-level semantics of representation; the relation of extensional structure and intensional content in the extensional systems of Wittgenstein and Carnap; the confusing changes in labelling the different kinds of analytic and apriori true sentences; etc. Among the philosophically interesting tools of symbolic logic Lesniewski's calculus of names deserves special attention.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Ontology and the Logistic Analysis of Language

  • Book Subtitle: An Enquiry into the Contemporary Views on Universals

  • Authors: Guido Küng

  • Series Title: Synthese Library

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-3514-9

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 1967

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0028-5Published: 31 March 1974

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-3516-3Published: 13 November 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-3514-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0166-6991

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8292

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 211

  • Topics: Logic, Ontology

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