Cogitations - A Study of Cogito in Relation to Philosophy of Logic Language a

Zusatztext 'the book is full of interesting and challenging ideas! presented in a most readable and orderly style and argued for adroitly and fairly.'E.P. Bos! University of Leiden. History and Philosophy of Logic Klappentext Descartes's cogito ergo sum is at once one of the simplest and most puzzling of philosophical arguments. Although most philosophers agree that the argument is valid! they do not agree about why it is valid. And the most generally accepted account! on which the inference becomes a standard logical argument once a missing premise is supplied! contradicts Descartes's own statements about the cogito. Zusammenfassung Arguing that the problem with Descartes' Cogito ergo sum - a famous but controversial philosopical dictum - lies in a deficiency in the theory of logic and language that Cartesian scholars have brought to the study of the Cogito, Katz here proposes that the Cogito be understood as an example of 'analytical entailment', a thesis according to which a statement can be a formally valid inference without depending on a law of logic.

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• Authors: Jerrold J. Katz, Jerrold J. (Professor of Philosopy Katz
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.1988
• EAN: 9780195055504
• ISBN: 978-0-19-505550-4
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Oxford University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Philosophy: general, reference works; Philosophy of Language, PHILOSOPHY / Language