260 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
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Routledge
260 Pages
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Routledge
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First published in English in 1966, Essays in Analysis addresses the problems in logic and foundations of mathematics, metaphysics, and epistemology. The problems are all root problems in their fields and range from questions concerning our knowledge of the external world to questions about logical entailment, mathematical proof, and induction. Their treatment is not guided by any underlying... Read more
Preface 1. Proof and the Theorem Proved 2. Self-Contradictory Suppositions 3. Wittgenstein on Some Questions in Foundations of Mathematics 4. Finitism and ‘The Limits of Empiricism’ 5. Invention and Discovery 6. On Entailment and Logical Necessity 7. Wittgenstein on Universals 8. Unknowables and Logical Atomism 9. Linguistic Approaches to Philosophical Problems 10. The Problem of Linguistic Inadequacy 11. The Problem of Justifying Inductive Inference 12. Three Aspects of Moore’s Philosophy 13. Moore’s ‘Proof of an External World’ 14. Factual, Mathematical and Metaphysical Inventories Index
Biography
Alice Ambrose
