Truth and Knowledge: On Some Themes in Tractarian and Russellian Philosophy of Language

by Eric H. Wefald

Based on the foundation of Wittgenstein's Tractatus and related writings of Bertrand Russell, Truth and Knowledge explores the basic problems of knowledge through the process of developing a theory of truth, uniquely the author's own. Russell's and Wittgenstein's theories of judgment, concepts of multiplicity, the nature of belief, and their ethical implications are examined, along with discussions and contributions of other more recent...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761802681
• ISBN13: 9780761802686
• Release Date: May 1996
• Publisher: University Press of America
• Length: 204 Pages