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Understanding Principia and Tractatus : Russell and Wittgenstein revisited

Title
  1. Understanding Principia and Tractatus : Russell and Wittgenstein revisited / A.P. Rao.
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  1. San Francisco : International Scholars Publications, 1998.
Author
  1. Pampapathy Rao, A., 1936-

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Description
  1. xviii, 348 pages; 22 cm
Summary
  1. This book of two parts is an attempt at understanding some crucial and interconnected philosophical problems in the Principia and the Tractatus. The first part deals with Chapters 11-13 of the Principia to present a comprehensive picture of Russell's theory of definite descriptions, and the second part with those propositions of the Tractatus in which Wittgenstein touches upon the concepts and tenets which Russell uses in his theories. In the first part, the problem which Russell faced (and as an answer to which he proposed his theory) is isolated from several garbled versions of it that came to be taken as issues of his concern. The familiar presumably Russellian solutions offered by others to what was assumed to be his problem, and are claimed to be better than the one offered by him, are shown to be neither Russellian nor better in virtue of their shifting his problematic or in virtue of rejecting his basic presuppositions. Alternatives worked out by Hintikka, Kaplan, Robinson, Lambert and others are critically examined, and are shown to be no serious contenders to Russell's theory which is argued to be a plausible and workable one.
Subject
  1. Wittgenstein, Ludwig, 1889-1951
  2. Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970
  3. Russell, Bertrand 1872-1970
  4. Wittgenstein, Ludwig 1889-1951
  5. Wittgenstein, Ludwig
  6. Russell, Bertrand
  7. Principles of mathematics (Russell, Bertrand)
  8. Tractatus logico-philosophicus (Wittgenstein, Ludwig)
  9. Language and logic
  10. Mathematics > Philosophy
  11. Description (Philosophy)
  12. Identity (Philosophical concept)
  13. identity
  14. Analytische filosofie
Contents
  1. pt. 1. On 14.01 of the Principia. Ch. 1. The Problem After One Hundred Years. Ch. 2. Russell's Riddles. Ch. 3. The Poineer's Prescience. Ch. 4. Crossing 'T's and Dotting 'I's in Russell's draft. Ch. 5. Free Description Theories. Appendix. Rodriguez-Consuegra on Russell on Definition -- pt. 2. On 3.203 of the Tractatus. Ch. 1. On Naming. Ch. 2. On Natural History. Ch. 3. On Generality. Ch. 4. On Identity.
Owning institution
  1. Princeton University Library
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references (p. [341]-343) and index.