Logic, truth and meaning / writing by G.E.M. Anscombe ; edited by Mary Geach and Luke Gormally.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Anscombe, G. E. M., author.

Contributor:

Geach, Mary, editor.

Gormally, Luke, editor.

Series:

St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs.

St. Andrews studies in philosophy and public affairs

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Truth.

Meaning (Philosophy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (334 p.)

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Exeter : Imprint Academic, [2015]

Summary:

Fourth in the series of volumes containing collections of papers of philosopher G.E.M. Anscombe, tackling various subjects and including a reprint of Anscombe's 'Introduction to Wittgenstein's Tractatus'.

Contents:

Cover ; Contents; Front matter ; Title page ; Publisher information ; St Andrews Studies in Philosophy and Public Affairs ; Frontispiece ; Dedication ; Preface ; Introduction; Body matter ; Part 1: Wittgenstein and the Tractatus ; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Glossary; 1. Elementary Propositions ; 2. The Theory of Descriptions ; 3. Negation: (1) The Logician's Definition of 'not p' ; 4. Negation: (2) The Picture Theory ; 5. Consequences of the Picture Theory ; 6. Sign and Symbol ; 7. Wittgenstein, Frege and Ramsey ; 8. Operations ; 9. Formal Concepts and Formal Series

10. 'The General Form of Proposition' 11. Generality ; 12. Knowledge and Certainty ; 13. 'Mysticism' and Solipsism ; Further Reading; Part 2: Thought and Belief ; 1. Belief and Thought ; 2. Grounds of Belief ; 3. Motives for Beliefs of All Sorts ; 4. Thought and Existent Objects ; 5. Knowledge and Essence ; 6. Grammar, Structure and Essence ; Part 3: Meaning, Truth and Existence ; 7. Private Ostensive Definition ; 8. Kripke on Rules and Private Language ; 9. Truth, Sense and Assertion ; 10. 'Making True' ; 11. Existence and Truth ; 12. Existence and the Existential Quantifier

13. On a Queer Pattern of Argument Back matter ; Index

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed April 25, 2016).

ISBN:

1-84540-893-4

1-84540-892-6

OCLC:

946310601