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- Binding
- Paperback
- Product Group
- Book
- Book Title
- The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays
- Features
- Revised Edition
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- 0 lbs
- IsTextBook
- Yes
- ISBN
- 9780674948372
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674948378
ISBN-13
9780674948372
eBay Product ID (ePID)
1116386
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
364 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Ways of Paradox and Other Essays : Revised and Enlarged Edition
Publication Year
1976
Subject
General, Logic
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Philosophy
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.7 in
Item Weight
14.9 Oz
Item Length
8.3 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Edition Number
2
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
76-004200
Dewey Edition
19
TitleLeading
The
Reviews
[Quine] is at once the most elegant expounder of systematic logic in the older, pre-Gödelian style of Frege and Russell, the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank... The title essay of Quine's The Ways of Paradox is a beautifully concise survey of the nature and significance of paradoxes... In general Quine's style combines a certain rotundity of utterance with a verbal wit that exploits the submerged associations and resonances of technical terms., [Quine] is at once the most elegant expounder of systematic logic in the older, pre-GÖdelian style of Frege and Russell, the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank....The title essay of Quine's The Ways of Paradox is a beautifully concise survey of the nature and significance of paradoxes...In general Quine's style combines a certain rotundity of utterance with a verbal wit that exploits the submerged associations and resonances of technical terms., Willard Van Orman Quine is the distinguished Harvard logician and philosopher who for more than a generation, and in prose as fresh and provocative as it is precise, has contributed fundamentally to the substance, the pedagogy, and the philosophy of mathematical logic., [Quine] is at once the most elegant expounder of systematic logic in the older, pre-G delian style of Frege and Russell, the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank....The title essay of Quine's The Ways of Paradox is a beautifully concise survey of the nature and significance of paradoxes...In general Quine's style combines a certain rotundity of utterance with a verbal wit that exploits the submerged associations and resonances of technical terms., The remarkable feature of this collection of essays is the achievement of profundity without the sacrifice of clarity. More than a clear, concise, nonmathematical presentation of logical perplexities and problems, this work is one written so that any intelligent layman can grasp the ideas wrestled with by Quine and other leading logicians. The manner in which the author interprets the pioneers of logical thought possesses the fascination of an exciting game rather than a dry intellectual exercise.
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
191
Table Of Content
1. The Ways of Paradox (1961) 2. On a Supposed Antinomy (1952) 3. Foundations of Mathematics (1964) 4. On the Application of Modern Logic (1960) 5. Homage to Rudolf Carnap (1970) 6. Logic as a Source of Syntactical Insights (1960) 7. Vagaries of Definition (1972) 8. Linguistics and Philosophy (1968) 9. The Limits of Knowledge (1972) 10. Necessary Truth (1963) 11. Truth by Convention (1935) 12. Carnap and Logical Truth (1954) 13. Implicit Definition Sustained (1964) 14. Mr. Strawson on Logical Theory (1953) 15. Three Grades of Modal Involvement (1953) 16. Reply to Professor Marcus (1962) 17. Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes (1955) 18. A Logistical Approach to the Ontological Problem (1939) 19. On Carnap's Views on Ontology (1951) 20. Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers (1964) 21. On Mental Entities (1952) 22. The Scope and Language of Science (1954) 23. Posits and Reality (1955) 24. On Simple Theories of a Complex World (1960) 25. On Multiplying Entities (1966-74) 26. Ontological Remarks on the Propositional Calculus (1934) 27. The Variable (1972) 28. Algebraic Logic and Predicate Functors (1970) 29. Truth and Disquotation (1970) References Index
Edition Description
Enlarged edition,Revised edition
Synopsis
This expanded edition of The Ways of Paradox includes papers that are among Professor W. V. Quine's most important and influential, such as "Truth by Convention," "Carnap and Logical Truth," "On Carnap's Views on Ontology," "The Scope and Language of Science," and "Posits and Reality." Many of these essays deal with unresolved issues of central interest to philosophers today. About half of them are addressed to "a wider public than philosophers." The remainder are somewhat more professional and technical. This new edition of The Ways of Paradox contains eight essays that appeared after publication of the first edition, and it retains the seminal essays that must be read by anyone who seeks to master Quine's philosophy. Quine has been characterized, in The New York Review of Books , as "the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank." His "philosophical innovations add up to a coherent theory of knowledge which he has for the most part constructed single-handed." In The Ways of Paradox new generations of readers will gain access to this philosophy.
LC Classification Number
BC51
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