About this title: 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's distinctive form of linguistic philosophy to enable the Vienna Circle to incorporate these valuable methods into their own programme of analysis. The project evolved over many years into a wide-ranging survey of the dissolution of many ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very good. Dust jacket is soiled and worn. Price clipped. The book is very clean and tight. 422 pages. Attempts to bring into systematic order of most of the insights into philosophical problems that had been the chief by paying attention to the language in which the problems had been put. The method derives almost entirely from Wittgenstein, Ryle and to a lesser extent Austin. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martin
Date Published: 1968
Description: Fair. Has notes and markings to first 80 or so pages. Surface and edge wear to cover, binding good. Softcover. Ships within one business day with delivery confirmation. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: St. Martin's Press / Macmillan
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good. Hardcover. Clean and unmarked (NOT ex-Library). Dust jacket has 2-inch tear upper front joint; general age discoloration; St. Martin's has put their sticker on spine. Page ends a bit yellowed. Binding solid and square; corners sharp. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Good + No Jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. 420 pp. Bound in plae blue boards, spine bumped, faded and spotted. Edgewear, cover sl. grubby. Edited by R. Harre. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Hardcover, 8vo, xii+442pp, index. Offsetting to eps, name ffep, foxing to edges, all else VG in G to VG d/w discoloured and edgeworn. Edited by R. Harre. read more
Binding: Unknown Binding
Publisher: Macmillan; St. Martin's P
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good in Good jacket. First Edition. Ex-libris book plate to front end paper. Slight shelf wear. Catalogue number to spine. Tears to dust jacket. Bit grubby. \r\n\r\nPublisher, PublishPlace Dispatched from UK. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, London:
Date Published: 1965
Description: VG/NONE. Light edgewear, paper yellowing. Some underlining, mostly to introduction. Name inked in on front free endpaper.; Index.; 8vo; 422 pages; Presentation of the linguistic method of philosophy. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan and Co
Date Published: 1968
Description: No dust jacket. Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition, suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours., 700grams, ISBN: read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan
Date Published: 1968
Description: Hardback, ex-library, with usual stamps and markings, in fair all round condition suitable as a reading copy. Ships within 24 hours., 700grams, ISBN: read more
Description: 422pp., 8vo, cloth, d.w.; d.w. is worn with small closed tears & previous owner's name on front flyleaf. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1965. Very good. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: Very Good in Fair jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall. Owner's name, and some sparse and very light pencil marginalia. Otherwise a clean, bright, tight copy in unclipped dust wrapper. Index. xii, 422pp. read more
Edition: First Edition
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Macmillan, London
Date Published: 1965
Description: F in VG jacket. Octavo. Fine in very good dustjacket (price-clipped, two minor closed tears). xii pp. and 422 pages including index. A thorough examination of the methods and power of linguistics in dissolving philosophical problems. Published posthumously, the author continued to re-work the original material until his death in 1959. A clean, solid copy. Dustjacket is mylar-protected. read more
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