Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:

An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

Inbunden, Engelska, 1996

AvJaakko Hintikka

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The essays collected here explore a fundamental contrast between two overall visions of language and its availability to self-examination. They can be characterized as "language as the universal medium" and "language as calculus" (or the model-theoretical view). The former normally includes the ineffability of semantics and a one-world ontology. This contrast has dominated twentieth-century philosophy but has scarcely been acknowledged before. Philosophers examined here from the vantage point of the contrast include Peirce, Frege, Wittgenstein, Carnap, Quine, Husserl and Heidegger. Tarski's famous result concerning the indefinability of truth seems to decide the issue in favor of the universalists. Hintikka nevertheless shows that Tarski's result is inconclusive and that truth can in fact be defined in languages which are in certain respects comparable to ordinary language. This unique volume is a must for every contemporary philosopher and for everyone interested in the semantics of our language.

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Utgivningsdatum1996-11-30
Mått156 x 234 x 21 mm
Vikt612 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieJaakko Hintikka Selected Papers
Antal sidor270
Upplaga1996
FörlagKluwer Academic Publishers
ISBN9780792342465

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Jaakko Hintikka is the author or co-author of thirty volumes and of some 300 scholarly articles in mathematical and philosophical logic, epistemology, language theory, philosophy of science, history of ideas and history of philosophy, including Aristotle, Descartes, Leibniz, Kant, Peirce, The Bloomsbury Group, Husserl and Wittgenstein. He has also been active in international scholarly organizations, most recently as the First Vice-President of FISP, Vice-President of IIP and Co-Chair of the American Organizing Committee of the Twentieth World Congress of Philosophy. He has been Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal Synthese and the Managing Editor of Synthese Library since 1965.

1. “Contemporary Philosophy and the Problem of Truth”.- 2. “Is Truth Ineffable?”.- 3. “Defining Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth”.- 4. “On the Development of the Model-Theoretic Viewpoint in Logical Theory”.- 5. “The Place of C.S. Peirce in the History of Logical Theory”.- 6. (with Merrill B. Hintikka) “Wittgenstein and Language as the Universal Medium”.- 7. “Carnap’s Work in the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics in a Historical Perspective”.- 8. “Quine as a Member of the Tradition of the Universality of Language”.- Appendixes.- 1. Jean van Heijenoort, “Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language”.- 2. Martin Kusch, “Husserl and Heidegger on Meaning”.