Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator An Ultimate Presupposit
R. G. Collingwood saw one of the main tasks of philosophers and of historians of human thought in uncovering what he called the ultimate presuppositions of different thinkers, of different philosophical movements and of entire eras of intellectual history
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JAAKKO HINTIKKA SELECTED PAPERS VOLUME2
The titles published in this series are listed at the end ofthis volume
JAAKKO HINTIKKA Boston University
LINGUA UNIVERSALlS VS. CALCULUS RATIOCINATOR An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS
vii
INTRODUCTION
ix
1. "Contemporary Philosophy and the Problem of Truth"
1
2. "Is Truth Ineffable?"
20
3. "Defining Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth"
46
4. "On the Development of the Model-Theoretic Viewpoint in Logical Theory"
104
5. "The Place of C.S. Peirce in the History of Logical Theory"
140
6. (with Merrill B. Hintikka) ''Wittgenstein and Language as the Universal Medium"
162
7. "Camap's Work in the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics in a Historical Perspective"
191
8. "Quine as a Member of the Tradition of the Universality of Language"
214
APPENDIXES 1. Jean van Heijenoort, "Logic as Calculus and Logic as Language"
233
2. Martin Kusch, "Husserl and Heidegger on Meaning"
240
ORIGIN OF THE ESSAYS
The following list indicates the first publication fonns of the different essays included in the present volume (the first publication forum elsewhere, if an essay appears here for the first time): 1.
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"Contemporary Philosophy and the Problem of Truth", forthcoming in Aeta Philosophiea Fenniea. "Is Truth Ineffable?", in Les Formes Aetuelles du Vrai: Entretiens de Palermo, ed. by N. Scardona, Enchiridion, Palenno, 1989, pp. 89-120. Defining Truth, the Whole Truth and Nothing But the Truth, Reports from the Department of Philosophy, University of Helsinki, no. 1, 1991,72 pp .. "On the Development of the Model-Theoretic Viewpoint in Logical Theory", Synthese, vol. 77 (1988), pp. 1-36. "The Place of C.8. Peirce in the History of Logical Theory", in The Rule of Reason: The Philosophy of eharles Sanders Peiree, ed. by Jacqueline Brunning and Paul Forster, University of Toronto Press, 1996. (with Merrill B. Hintikka) "Wittgenstein and Language as the Universal Medium", ch. 1 of Investigating Wittgenstein, Basil Blackwell,Oxford, 1986, pp. 1-29. "Carnap's Work in the Foundations of Logic and Mathematics in a Historical Perspective", Synthese, vol. 93 (1992), pp. 167-189. "Quine as a Member of the Tradition of the Universality of Language", in Perspeetives on Quine, ed. by Robe
