Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (Midway Reprints)

Carnap, Rudolf

ISBN 10: 0226093476 / ISBN 13: 9780226093475

Published by University of Chicago Press, 1988

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A clean and straight copy with clean text and an uncreased spine. 140 pp.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meaning and Necessity: A Study in Semantics and Modal Logic (Midway Reprints)
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 1988
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0226093476
• ISBN 13: 9780226093475
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition: 2nd ed.
• Condition: Clean & Unmarked
• Weight: 12 ounces

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Synopsis

"This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence. . . . The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than asserting truths. However he provides plenty of matter for argument."—Anthony Quinton, Hibbert Journal

From the Back Cover

This book is valuable as expounding in full a theory of meaning that has its roots in the work of Frege and has been of the widest influence...The chief virtue of the book is its systematic character. From Frege to Quine most philosophical logicians have restricted themselves by piecemeal and local assaults on the problems involved. The book is marked by a genial tolerance. Carnap sees himself as proposing conventions rather than as asserting truths. However, he provides plenty of matter for argument.