Truth and other enigmas / Michael Dummett
1978, 1st edition. London : Duckworth. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #387065
ISBN: 0715609971
Physical description; 470 pp. ; 24 cm. Contents; 1. Truth -- 2. Presupposition -- 3. The structure of appearance -- 4. Nominalism -- 5. Constructionalism -- 6. George Boole -- 7. Frege on functions -- 8. Frege's philosophy -- 9. Frege's distinction between sense and reference -- 10. Realism -- 11. Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics -- 12. The philosophical significance of Gödel's theorem -- 13. Platonism -- 14. The philosophical basis of intuitionistic logic -- 15. Wang's paradox -- 16. Is logic empirical? -- 17. The justification of deduction -- 18. Can an effect precede its cause? -- 19. Bringing about the past -- 20. A defence of McTaggart's proof of the unreality of time -- 21. The reality of the past -- 22. The significance of Quine's indeterminacy thesis -- 23. The social character of meaning -- 24. Oxford philosophy -- 25. Can analytical philosophy be systematic, and ought it to be? Subjects; Frege, Gottlob 1848-1925. Addresses. Philosophy, Modern 20th century. Logic.
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