Contents include examinations of arithmetic and geometry; the rigorous construction of the theory of integers; the rational numbers and their foundation in arithmetic; and the rigorous construction of elementary arithmetic. Advanced topics encompass the principle of complete induction; the limit and point of accumulation; and more. Includes 27 ...
The contribution made by the Vienna Circle to ethics and the philosophy of action is increasingly being recognized. Here two previously unpublished pieces by Moritz Schlick and his pupil Josef Schachter set the scene, showing how ethics is not dependent on metaphysics but does require a sensitivity to strata of language other than that of science. ...
`Wittgenstein and his Times' contains five essays by well-known philosophers, Anthony Kenny, Brian McGuinness, J.C.Nyiri, Rush Rees and G.H. von Wright, which relate Wittgenstein's thinking and world view to that of certain influential contemporaries. Although it is not surprising that Wittgenstein's work should have features in common with and ...
In this study Friedrich Waismann gives a systematic presentation of insights into philosophical problems which can be achieved by clarifying the language in which the problems are posed. Much of the material and the method itself derive from Wittgenstein's work in the early 1930s. The book was originally envisaged as a well organized account of ...
`Wittgenstein and his Times' contains five essays by well-known philosophers, Anthony Kenny, Brian McGuinness, J.C.Nyiri, Rush Rees and G.H. von Wright, which relate Wittgenstein's thinking and world view to that of certain influential contemporaries. Although it is not surprising that Wittgenstein's work should have features in common with and ...
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