Necessity lost. Modality and logic in early analytic philosophy. Volume I /

Philosophers since Aristotle have traditionally held that impossibilities make up the nature of logic. Sanford Shieh investigates an important but underexplored break with this tradition: Frege and Russell questioned whether there really are such things as possibilities or necessities, and sought th...

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Modality and logic in early analytic philosophy
1. Verfasser:
Shieh, Sanford
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.
Ausgabe:
First edition.
Zusammenfassung:
Philosophers since Aristotle have traditionally held that impossibilities make up the nature of logic. Sanford Shieh investigates an important but underexplored break with this tradition: Frege and Russell questioned whether there really are such things as possibilities or necessities, and sought the foundations of logic elsewhere.
Umfang:
1 online resource (xxiv, 441 pages).
Anmerkungen:
Previously issued in print: 2019.
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780192568816
0192568817
9780191871146
0191871141
9780192568809
0192568809
Schlagworte:
Logic.
Analysis (Philosophy)
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