Necessity lost: modality and logic in early analytic philosophy, volume 1
Auteur :
Shieh, Sanford
Éditeur :
Oxford University Press
ISBN :
9780199228645
Date de publication :
1 avr. 2019
Dimensions :
23,6 x 16,4 x 3,0 cm
Poids :
834 g
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
Grande Bretagne
Philosophers since Aristotle have traditionally held that impossibilities make up the nature of logic. Sanford Shieh investigates an important but underexplored break with this tradition: Frege and Russell questioned whether there really are such things as possibilities or necessities, and sought the foundations of logic elsewhere.