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Record Nr.

UNINA9910784739503321

Autore

Katz Jerrold J

Titolo

Cogitations [[electronic resource] ] : a study of the cogito in relation to the philosophy of logic and language and a study of them in relation to the cogito / / Jerrold J. Katz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1988

ISBN

1-280-44054-6

0-19-536365-5

1-4237-6378-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (217 p.)

Disciplina

111

Soggetti

Analysis (Philosophy)

Language and logic

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography: p. [186]-198 and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

HI; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W

Sommario/riassunto

Descartes's Cogito ergo sum is one of the best-known of all philosophical formulations, but many philosophers have found it problematic. Katz proposes that the ""Cogito"" should be understood as an example of ""analytical entailment"".