Dummett on Abstract Objects
β Scribed by George Duke
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Year
- 2012
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 223
- Series
- History of Analytic Philosophy
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Synopsis
π SIMILAR VOLUMES
There is a widely recognized but infrequently discussed distinction between the spatiotemporal furniture of the world (tokens) and the types of which they are instances. Words come in both types and tokensβfor example, there is only one word type 'the' but there are numerous tokens of it on this pag
Dummett argues that the aim of philosophy is the analysis of thought and that, with Frege, analytical philosophy learned that the route to the analysis of thought is the analysis of language. Here are bold and deep readings of the subject's history and character, which form the topic of this volume.