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- PublisherPhilosophical Society of Finland
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 9519264280
- ISBN 13 9789519264288
- BindingPaperback
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Six Essays in Philosophical Logic
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Societas philosophica Fennica, 106, 1996
ISBN 10: 9519264280
ISBN 13: 9789519264288
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Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. Text in English. 91 pp. Edge wear. Faded spine. The essays are contributions from recent years to topics in philosophical logic which have engaged Professor von Wright for some forty years or more. Three of the essays deal with the logic of normative discourse also called " deontic logic" after von Wright's seminal paper in Mind 1951. In recent years the subject has expanded considerably and found applications in legal theory and computer science. But the philosophical foundations of the enterprise have continued to vex its originator's mind. If norms as prescriptions are neither true nor false, how can relations such as contradiction or logical consequence obtain between them? "Is there a Logic of Norms" at all? In an essay with this title, in its final form not previously published in English, von Wright makes a final effort to answer the question. In his most recent paper he exploits a distinction between " ought to be" and "ought to do" with the purpose of providing more room for the notion of truth in normative contexts than has usually been thought possible. von Wright's early collection of essays Logical Studies included papers on conditionality ("if-then") and logical entailment. Pursuing these two themes soon took him to a third one which questions the universal validity of the cornerstones of classical logic, the Law of Excluded Middle and the Law of Contradiction. Three of the papers in the volume reflect their author's concern with these much debated and controversial questions. One essays deals with the problem of colour incompatibility which became a stumbling block for Wittgenstein's views in the Tractatus. The author calls his contribution a "logico-philosophical fantasy ". He does not claim to have solved the problem - at most to have shown how to escape some of the perplexities which it has created. Seller Inventory # 4126
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