A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800. Volume Seven : Logic, Philosophy, Epistomology, Universal Language.

Alston, R.C.

Published by Printed for the author by Ernest Cummins, Bradford, first edition, 1967, 1967

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Limited edition of 500 copies. Green cloth-backed boards, gilt cover device, 4to, 28 cm, xvi, 115 pp, 37 plates (some fold-out). 300 entries. From the preface: "This is the first volume in which I have had to rely on principles of selection since, although it purports to include all works dealing specifically with logic written in English, it also includes material drawn from the very considerable corpus of work on philosophy and epistemology published before 1800. The decision to include only works which seemed to me to be of fundamental importance for the history of the relationship between linguistic and philosophical theory, and the changing attitudes to the function of language in the ratiocinative process, has inevitably resulted in choices (both of inclusion and omission) which may seem odd.The inclusion (I hope comprehensively) of works on logic written in English requires neither explanation nor apology, but the decision not to include works written in Latin, though in keeping with the scheme adopted in other volumes, was perhaps an unhappy one. Mindful of the fundamental importance of these works in the history of logical theory I have therefore provided in the Appendix a short-title list of the most important treatises published in England and Scotland up to the year 1700. The section dealing with "Universal Language" has been included in this volume because the works concerned have an obvious and intimate connection with one trend of philosophical enquiry in the seventeenth century, conditioned no doubt by the gradual disuse of Latin as an international language. ".

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• Title: A Bibliography of the English Language from the Invention of Printing to the Year 1800. Volume Seven : Logic, Philosophy, Epistomology, Universal Language.
• Publisher: Printed for the author by Ernest Cummins, Bradford, first edition, 1967
• Publication Date: 1967
• Binding: Hardcover
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  • Literature : English (Bibliographies)