| Description |
1 online resource (177 p.) |
| Series |
Academia Philosophical Studies ; v.50 |
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Academia philosophical studies.
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| Contents |
Cover -- I. Philosophy -- 1. The Beginning in the Cave -- 2. Word and Concept -- 3. Philosophy and Common Sense -- 4. Philosophy, Science and Art -- 5. Philosophy as an Ideal -- II. Language -- 1. Speech as Action -- 2. Three Functions of Linguistic Action -- 3. Expression and Meaning -- 4. What Is the Meaning of an Expression? -- 5. Meaning and Rule -- III. Knowledge -- 1. Sensation and Argument -- 2. Deductive and Inductive Arguments -- 3. How Do We Justify the Conclusion of an Inductive Argument? -- 4. The Induction Principle as a Hypothetical Postulate of Practical Reason |
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5. When Are Axioms True? -- IV. Truth -- 1. The Classic Definition of Truth -- 2. Objections to the Classic Definition and Tarski's Reformulation -- 3. Five Criteria of Truth -- 4. The Surplus of the Concept of Truth in Relation to the Five Criteria -- 5. The Classic Definition as the Decisive Criterion and the Ideal -- V. Being -- 1. The Four Meanings of "is" -- 2. Real Existence and Real Facts -- 3. Physical Facts and Psychic Facts -- 4. Semantic Existence and Semantic Facts -- 5. The Being of Universals, the Being of Fictitious Things and the Being of Nothingness -- a) The Being of Universals |
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B) The Being of Fictitious Things and the Being of Nothingness -- VI. Good -- 1. The Good, Morally and Extramorally -- 2. The Metaethics of Moral Good -- a) Cognitivism -- b) Emotivism -- c) Institutionalism -- 3. Normative Ethics -- a) The Concept of the Good as the Foundation of Morality -- b) The Good as Utility -- c) The Good as a Rule -- 4. Minimum and Maximum Morality -- 5. The Generalisation Rule as an Axiomatic Postulate of Practical Reason -- Bibliography -- Indexes |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Textbooks
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Philosophy.
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| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783896659439 |
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389665943X |
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