Lingua Universalis vs. Calculus Ratiocinator:: An Ultimate Presupposition of Twentieth-Century Philosophy

by Jaakko Hintikka

Book Overview

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. He also noted that such ultimate presuppositions usually remain tacit at first, and are discovered only by subsequent reflection. Collingwood would have been delighted by the contrast that constitutes...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9048147549
• ISBN13: 9789048147540
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 0.91 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"