Meaning And Necessity

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 266 pages
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Release : 1988-02-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780226093475

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"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:637857622

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Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0521207207

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A volume of studies in philosophical logic by a group of younger philosophers in the UK. There is a core of problems in the theory of meaning which have been accorded a central importance by philosophers, logicians and theoretical linguists, and which have stimulated some of the most powerful and original work in these subjects. The contributors to the volume have a common interest in these topics, insist on their continuing and fundamental importance, and offer here a distinctive and original contribution to them.

Author : Saul A. Kripke
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1980
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0674598466

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Naming and Necessity by Saul A. Kripke Pdf

If there is such a thing as essential reading in metaphysics or in philosophy of language, this is it. Ever since the publication of its original version, Naming and Necessity has had great and increasing influence. It redirected philosophical attention to neglected questions of natural and metaphysical necessity and to the connections between these and theories of reference, in particular of naming, and of identity. From a critique of the dominant tendency to assimilate names to descriptions and more generally to treat their reference as a function of their Fregean sense, surprisingly deep and widespread consequences may be drawn. The largely discredited distinction between accidental and essential properties, both of individual things (including people) and of kinds of things, is revived. So is a consequent view of science as what seeks out the essences of natural kinds. Traditional objections to such views are dealt with by sharpening distinctions between epistemic and metaphysical necessity; in particular by the startling admission of necessary a posteriori truths. From these, in particular from identity statements using rigid designators whether of things or of kinds, further remarkable consequences are drawn for the natures of things, of people, and of kinds; strong objections follow, for example to identity versions of materialism as a theory of the mind. This seminal work, to which today's thriving essentialist metaphysics largely owes its impetus, is here published with a substantial new Preface by the author.

Author : Martin Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000735017

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Meaning, Quantification, Necessity by Martin Davies Pdf

Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful consideration of main themes ranging from Gricean accounts of meaning to two dimensional modal logic. The first part of the book is concerned with the nature of the semantic theorist’s project, and particularly with the crucial concepts of meaning, truth, and semantic structure. The second and third parts deal with various constructions that are found in natural languages: names, quantifiers, definite descriptions, and modal operators. Throughout, while assuming some familiarity with philosophical logic and elementary formal logic, the text provides a clear exposition. It brings together related ideas, and in some places refines and improves upon existing accounts.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Franklin Classics
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2018-10-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0343236087

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Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

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Author : Alvin Plantinga
Publisher : Clarendon Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 1978-02-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780191037177

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The Nature of Necessity by Alvin Plantinga Pdf

This is a reissue of a book which is an exploration and defence of the notion of modality 'de re', the idea that objects have both essential and accidental properties. It is one of the first full-length studies of the modalities to emerge from the debate to which Saul Kripke, David Lewis, Ruth Marcus and others have contributed. The argument is developed by means of the notion of possible worlds, and ranges over key problems including the nature of essence, trans-world identity, negative existential propositions, and the existence of unactual objects in other possible worlds. In the final chapters Professor Plantinga applies his logical theories to the clarification of two problems in the philosophy of religion - the Problem of Evil and the Ontological Argument.

Author : Max Cresswell,Edwin Mares,Adriane Rini
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-15
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781107077881

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Logical Modalities from Aristotle to Carnap by Max Cresswell,Edwin Mares,Adriane Rini Pdf

Introduces readers to the history of necessity and possibility, two modal concepts which play a key role in philosophy.

Author : Rudolf Carnap
Publisher : Scholar's Choice
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-02-15
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1297029143

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Meaning and Necessitya Study in Semantics and Modal Logic. - Scholar's Choice Edition by Rudolf Carnap Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Martin Davies
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2019-10-30
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781000735512

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Meaning, Quantification, Necessity by Martin Davies Pdf

Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful consideration of main themes ranging from Gricean accounts of meaning to two dimensional modal logic. The first part of the book is concerned with the nature of the semantic theorist’s project, and particularly with the crucial concepts of meaning, truth, and semantic structure. The second and third parts deal with various constructions that are found in natural languages: names, quantifiers, definite descriptions, and modal operators. Throughout, while assuming some familiarity with philosophical logic and elementary formal logic, the text provides a clear exposition. It brings together related ideas, and in some places refines and improves upon existing accounts.

Author : Sigrid Redse Johansen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2019-10-03
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781316999745

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The Military Commander's Necessity by Sigrid Redse Johansen Pdf

The idea of military necessity lies at the centre of the law of armed conflict and yet it is less than fully understood. This book analyses which legal limits govern the commander's assessment of military necessity, and argues that military necessity itself is not a limitation. Military necessity calls for a highly discretionary exercise: the assessment. Yet, there is little guidance as to how this discretionary process should be exercised, apart from the notions of 'a reasonable military commander'. A reasonable assessment of 'excessive' civilian losses are presumed to be almost intuitive. Objective standards for determining excessive civilian losses are difficult to identify, particularly when that 'excessiveness' will be understood in relative terms. The perpetual question arises: are civilian losses acceptable if the war can be won? The result is a heavy burden of assessment placed on the shoulders of the military commander.

Author : Simon Blackburn
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1001328558

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Meaning, Reference and Necessity by Simon Blackburn Pdf

Author : Scott Soames
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Electronic books
ISBN : 9780195145281

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Beyond Rigidity by Scott Soames Pdf

Soames introduces a new conception of the relationship between linguistic meaning and assertions made by utterances. He gives meanings of proper names and natural-kind predicates and explains their use in attitude ascriptions.

Author : Jeremi Brewer,Stephen W. Gibson
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2014-03-28
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781956182

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Necessity Entrepreneurs by Jeremi Brewer,Stephen W. Gibson Pdf

Necessity entrepreneurs are individuals in developing countries who start small enterprises out of necessity. While they range from street sellers to educated hopefuls with little access to formal employment, the one thing that unites them is the need

Author : Vanessa Lemm
Publisher : Fordham University Press
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2014-10-15
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823262892

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Nietzsche and the Becoming of Life by Vanessa Lemm Pdf

Throughout his writing career Nietzsche advocated the affirmation of earthly life as a way to counteract nihilism and asceticism. This volume takes stock of the complexities and wide-ranging perspectives that Nietzsche brings to bear on the problem of life’s becoming on Earth by engaging various interpretative paradigms reaching from existentialist to Darwinist readings of Nietzsche. In an age in which the biological sciences claim to have unlocked the deepest secrets and codes of life, the essays in this volume propose a more skeptical view. Life is both what is closest and what is furthest from us, because life experiments through us as much as we experiment with it, because life keeps our thinking and our habits always moving, in a state of recurring nomadism. Nietzsche’s philosophy is perhaps the clearest expression of the antinomy contained in the idea of “studying” life and in the Socratic ideal of an “examined” life and remains a deep source of wisdom about living.