The Methods of Contemporary Thought Translated from the German by Peter Caws
Professor Bochenski, as he himself points out in the prologue, is a logician; he is best known in England and the United States for his work in the history of logic, and more recently in Soviet and East European philosophy. But he has taught philosophy for many years - in Rome, in Switzerland, and o...
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| Language: | English |
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Dordrecht
Springer Netherlands
1965, 1965
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1965 |
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- I Introduction
- 1. Terminology
- 2. Logic, Methodology and Science
- II The Phenomenological Method
- 3. General Remarks
- 4. “Back to the Things Themselves”
- 5. The Object of Phenomenological Investigation
- III Semiotic Methods
- 6. General Remarks
- 7. Formalism
- 8. Rules of Syntactic Meaning
- 9. Semantic Functions and Types
- 10. Semantic Meaning and Verifiability
- 11. Example of Semantic Methods in Practice
- IV The Axiomatic Method
- 12. General Remarks
- 13. The Axiomatic System
- 14. Mathematical Logic
- 15. Definition and Concept Formation
- 16. Example of the Axiomatic Method in Practice
- V Reductive Methods
- 17. General Remarks
- 18. The Structure of the Natural Sciences
- 19. Types of Explanatory Statements
- 20. Induction
- 21. Probability and Statistics
- 22. Historical Method
- Epilogue Guide to Further Reading
- Index of Persons
- Index of Subjects