Truth, Knowledge and Modality: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 book by Georg Henrik Von Wright

Georg Henrik Von Wright

ISBN 10: 0631133674 / ISBN 13: 9780631133674

Published by Blackwell, 1985

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Immediate dispatch from Somerset. Nice book in great condition. Pages in excellent condition. Dustcover faded. Hardcover. English. See images for condition. About the book >.>.> One of the world's foremost modern philosophers has concentrated in this book on the ideas of truth, knowledge, and modality. In dealing with truth he constructs a logic which caters for the possibility that some propositions are neither true nor false, and also for the possibility that some are both true and false. This logic is a useful instrument for dealing with the traditional antinomies, and it also establishes a link between logic in the classical traditions and some unorthodox developments in logic after Hegel. In a stimulating chapter on the possibility of knowing the future and the relation between foreknowledge and determinism, Professor von Wright argues that the idea of an omniscient God is fully compatible with man's freedom of action. Those who disagree confuse the conditions for knowing with factors upon which an agent's actions may be said to depend. The author advances his theory of temporalized, synchronic and diachronic modalities, especially important to the study of natural n.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Truth, Knowledge and Modality: Philosophical Papers, Volume 3 book by Georg Henrik Von Wright
• Publisher: Blackwell
• Publication Date: 1985
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631133674
• ISBN 13: 9780631133674
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Very Good
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  • Philosophy Books