Cogitations : A Study of the Cogito in Relation to the Philosophy of Logic and Language and a Study of Them in Relation to the Cogito.
Title:
Cogitations : A Study of the Cogito in Relation to the Philosophy of Logic and Language and a Study of Them in Relation to the Cogito.
Author:
Katz, Jerrold J.
ISBN:
9780195363654
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (217 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- I. Introduction -- II. The Cartesian Scholar's Dilemma -- III. The Source of the Obscurity -- IV. Logical Form, Universality, Linguisticism, and Locke -- V. How the Concept Containment Notion of Analyticity was Lost -- VI. Regaining the Concept Containment Notion of Analyticity -- VII. The Analytic Entailment of Existential Sentences -- VIII. The Cogito as an Analytic Entailment -- IX. Cartesian Scholarship Revisited -- X. The Nature of Analysis -- XI. The Cogito and Indubitability -- XII. On the Existence of a Thinker -- XIII. A Brief Revisionist History of Analyticity -- Notes -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W.
Abstract:
Arguing that the problem with Descartes's Cogito ergo sum --a famous but controversial philosophical dictum--lies in a deficiency in the theory of language and logic that Cartesian scholars have brought to the study of the Cogito, Katz here proposes that the Cogito be understood as an example of "analytic entailment," a thesis according to which a statement can be a formally valid inference without depending on a law of logic.
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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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