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Propositions, functions, and analysis [electronic resource] : selected essays on Russell's philosophy / Peter Hylton.

By: Hylton, Peter.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
Publisher: Oxford : New York : Clarendon Press ; Oxford University Press, 2005Description: 226 p. ; 24 cm.Subject(s): Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970 | Analysis (Philosophy) -- History -- 20th century | Logic, Symbolic and mathematical -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books. DDC classification: 192 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism -- Beginning with analysis -- Logic in Russell's logicism -- Russell's substitutional theory -- The vicious circle principle -- Review of Dummett's Origins of analytical philosophy -- Functions and propositional functions in Principia mathematica -- Functions, operations, and sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- Frege and Russell -- The theory of descriptions.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [212]-223) and index.

The nature of the proposition and the revolt against idealism -- Beginning with analysis -- Logic in Russell's logicism -- Russell's substitutional theory -- The vicious circle principle -- Review of Dummett's Origins of analytical philosophy -- Functions and propositional functions in Principia mathematica -- Functions, operations, and sense in Wittgenstein's Tractatus -- Frege and Russell -- The theory of descriptions.

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