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Causing, Perceiving and Believing

An Examination of the Philosophy of C. J. Ducasse

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  • © 1975

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Part of the book series: Philosophical Studies Series (PSSP, volume 6)

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Although a succession of fashions swept the American philosophical scene, C. J. Ducasse was throughout his long career an effective practitioner of analytic philosophy in the classic tradition. As he explained in 1924 "[i]t is only with truths about such questions as the meaning of the term 'true', or 'real', or 'good', and the like . . . that philosophy is concerned. " Such truths are to be discovered inductively by comparing and analyzing concrete cases of the admittedly proper u/le . . . The pressing problems of philosophy are thus in my view primarily problems of def'mition, and moreover, problems of framing def'mitions which must be in formal terms, under penalty of not being otherwise understandable by or acceptable to one or another philosophical school, since the formal elements of thought and tp. ey only are common to all schools. These def'mitions, of course are not to be arbitrary; their relation to the facts of admittedly meaningful linguistic usage is the same as exists between any scientific hypothesis and the facts which it attempts to 1 construe.

Authors and Affiliations

  • State University of New York, Buffalo, USA

    Peter H. Hare, Edward H. Madden

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Causing, Perceiving and Believing

  • Book Subtitle: An Examination of the Philosophy of C. J. Ducasse

  • Authors: Peter H. Hare, Edward H. Madden

  • Series Title: Philosophical Studies Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-1786-2

  • Publisher: Springer Dordrecht

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: D. Reidel Publishing Company, Dordrecht, Holland 1975

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-90-277-0563-1Due: 30 April 1975

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-94-010-1788-6Published: 19 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-94-010-1786-2Published: 06 December 2012

  • Series ISSN: 0921-8599

  • Series E-ISSN: 2542-8349

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 218

  • Topics: Modern Philosophy

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