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Philosophical analysis : its development between the two World Wars / J.O. Umson.
Record no.:
5788
Author:
Urmson, J. O.;
Publisher:
Oxford :: Clarendon Press,
Year:
1956.
Description:
202 pages ; 19 cm
Subject:
Analysis (Philosophy);
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202) and indexes.
Type:
Monograph
Abstract:
Introduction -- Part I. Philosophical analysis and logical atomism -- 1. The historical background of logical atomism -- 2. A preliminary sketch of logical atomism -- A. Metaphysics and logic -- B. The general nature of the logic of truth-functions --
C. Language as truth-functional -- D. Themetaphysical application of this view of language -- 3. Atmoistic metaphysics and analysis -- A. Different types of analysis -- B. Analysis and the metaphysics of atomism -- 4. Interim review of logical atomism -- 5. Facts and pictures of facrs -- A. The basic data: facts and their ingredients -- B. Types of facts -- C. Types of ultimate facts-summary -- D. Pictures of facts -- 6. Future general comments on logical atomism -- Part II. Logical positivism and the downfall of logical atomism -- 7. The rejection of metaphysics -- 8. Logical positivism and analysis -- 9. Some detailed defects in logical atomism -- A. The one perfect language -- B. Solipsism -- C. Atomic propositions -- D. Picturing facts -- 10. The impossibility of reductive analysis -- Part III. The beginnings of contemporary philosophy -- 11. The beginnings of contemporary philosophy -- A. The purpose of analysis -- B. The nature of metaphysics -- C. Two new slogans -- D. Reassessment of reductive analysis -- Retrospect -- Some principal works discussed in the text.
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