The Logical Syntax of Language

Carnap, Rudolf; Trans. Amethe Smeaton

ISBN 10: 0812695240 / ISBN 13: 9780812695243

Editore: Littlefield, Adams & Co, 1959

Riguardo questo articolo

First Paperback Printing in green wraps, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, panels rubbed, fade to spine (titles clear & legible), neat name, etc to endpaper edge, else clean tight copy of the 1st printing of the Smeaton translation; 8vo; xvi + 352pp indexed.

Codice articolo 30859

Dati bibliografici

• Titolo: The Logical Syntax of Language
• Editore: Littlefield, Adams & Co
• Data di pubblicazione: 1959
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0812695240
• ISBN 13: 9780812695243
• Rilegatura: Soft Cover
• Edizione: First Edition.
• Condizione: Very Good
• Cataloghi dei venditori:
  • Philosophy

Descrizione articolo

Riassunto

Available for the first time in 20 years, here is the Rudolf Carnap's famous ?principle of tolerance by which everyone is free to mix and match the rules of language and logic. In The Logical Syntax of Language, Carnap explains how his entire theory of language structure came to him like a vision when he was ill. He postulates that concepts of the theory of logic are purely syntactical and therefore can be formulated in logical syntax.

Product Description

Rudolf Carnap's entire theory of Language structure "came to me," he reports, "like a vision during a sleepless night in January 1931, when I was ill." This theory appeared in The Logical Syntax of Language (1934). Carnap argued that many philosophical controversies really depend upon whether a particular language form should be used. This leads him to his famous "Principle of tolerance" by which everyone is free to mix and match the rules of his language and therefore his logic in any way he wishes. In this way, philosophical issues become reduced to a discussion of syntactical properties, plus reasons of practical convenience for preferring one form of language to another. In a tour de force of precise reasoning, Carnap also indicated how two model languages could be constructed. This is one of three books which Open Court is making available in paperback reprint in its Open Court Classics series. The other two are Carnap's The Logical Structure of the World and Schlick's General Theory of Knowledge.