Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic - Couverture souple

Carnap, Rudolf

 
9781406734676: Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic
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ISBN 10 : 1406734675 ISBN 13 : 9781406734676
Editeur : Read Books, 2007

Synopsis

The main purpose of this book is the development of a new method for the semantical analysis of meaning, that is, a new method for analyzing and describing the meanings of linguistic expressions. This method, called the method of extension and intension, is developed by modifying and extending certain customary concepts, especially those of class and property. The method will be contrasted with various other semantical methods used in traditional philosophy or by contemporary authors. These other methods have one characteristic in common. They all regard an expression in a language as a name of a concrete or abstract entity. In contradistinction, the method here proposed takes an expression, not as naming anything, but as possessing an intension and an extension. Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

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Présentation de l'éditeur

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

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Éditeur
Read Books
Date d'édition
2007
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1406734675
ISBN 13 
9781406734676
Reliure
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Nombre de pages
220
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9780226093475: Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0226093476 ISBN 13 :  9780226093475
Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1988
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