Why does Language Matter to Philosophy.

Hacking, Ian:

Published by Cambridge University Press., 1975

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200 p. Copy with rubbed and soiled bindingt. The pages are browned but clean. - Strategy - - A. The heyday of ideas - - 2 Thomas Hobbes' mental discourse - - 3 Port Royal's ideas - - 4 Bishop Berkeley's abstractions - - 5 Nobody's theory of meaning - - B. The heyday of meanings - - 6 Noam Chomsky's innatism - - 7 Bertrand Russell's acquaintance - - 8 Ludwig Wittgenstein's articulation - - 9 A. J. Ayer's verification - - 10 Norman Malcolm's dreams - - C. The heyday of sentences - - 11 Paul Feyerabend's theories - - 12 Donald Davidson's truth - - I. Tarski's theory 130 II. Problems and extensions - - 134 III. The theory of meaning 140 IV. The veri- fication of T-sentences 144 V. Charity and hu- manity 146 VI. The determinacy of translation 150 - - 13 Why does language matter to philosophy? - - A. The heyday of ideas 163 - - B. The heyday of mean- - - ings 170 C. The heyday of sentences 177 - - Bibliography - - Index. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 250. Seller Inventory # 1255960

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Title: Why does Language Matter to Philosophy.

Publisher: Cambridge University Press.

Publication Date: 1975

Binding: Softcover.

Condition: Gut