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_bDUM
100 _aDummett, Michael
245 _aLogical basis of metaphysics
260 _bHarvard University Press,
_c2008.
_aCambridge :
300 _axi, 355 p. ;
_c24 cm.
365 _b38.00
_cUSD
_d76.50
490 _aThe William James lectures ;
_v1976.
504 _aIncludes index.
520 _aMichael Dummett's new book is the greatly expanded and recently revised version of his distinguished William James Lectures, delivered in 1976. Dummett regards the construction of a satisfactory theory of meaning as the most pressing task of contemporary analytical philosophy. He believes that the successful completion of this difficult assignment will lead to a resolution of problems before which philosophy has been stalled, in some instances for centuries. These problems turn on the correctness or incorrectness of a realistic view of one or another realm--the physical world, the mind, the past, mathematical reality, and so forth. Rejection of realism amounts to adoption of a variant semantics, and often of a variant logic, for the statements in a certain sector of our language. Dummett does not assume the correctness of any one logical system but shows how the choice between different logics arises at the level of the theory of meaning and depends upon the choice of one or another general form of meaning-theory. In order to determine the correct shape for a meaning-theory, we must attain a clear conception of what a meaning-theory can be expected to do. Such a conception, says Dummett, will form "a base camp for an assault on the metaphysical peaks: I have no greater ambition in this book than to set up a base camp.
650 _aMetaphysics
650 _aLogic
650 _aAnalytical philosophy
650 _aRealism
650 _aBeth trees
650 _aConstructivism
650 _aFrege
650 _aMeaning - theory
650 _aLogical laws
650 _aPhenomenalism
650 _aProbability
650 _aQuantum logic
650 _aSemantic theory
650 _a Quine, W.V.O.
650 _aTruth
650 _aWittgenstein, L.
650 _aHolism Stability
650 _aTarski schema
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