Cogitations: A Study of the Cogito in Relation to the Philosophy of Logic and Language and a Study of Them in Relation to the Cogito

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Descartes's cogito ergo sum is at once one of the simplest and most puzzling of philosophical arguments. Although most philosophers agree that the argument is valid, they do not agree about why it is valid. And the most generally accepted account, on which the inference becomes a standard logical argument once a missing premise is supplied, contradicts Descartes's own statements about the cogito.

"Offers a refreshing new line of approach from the pont of view of a distinguished philosopher of ...

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Cogitations: A Study of the Cogito in Relation to the Philosophy of Logic and Language and a Study of Them in Relation to the Cogito

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Descartes's cogito ergo sum is at once one of the simplest and most puzzling of philosophical arguments. Although most philosophers agree that the argument is valid, they do not agree about why it is valid. And the most generally accepted account, on which the inference becomes a standard logical argument once a missing premise is supplied, contradicts Descartes's own statements about the cogito.

"Offers a refreshing new line of approach from the pont of view of a distinguished philosopher of language..."--Journal of Philosophy.

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  • ISBN-13: 9780195055504
  • Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
  • Publication date: 9/28/1988
  • Pages: 226
  • Product dimensions: 6.13 (w) x 9.25 (h) x 0.47 (d)

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City University of New York Graduate Center
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Table of Contents

I. Introduction 3
II. The Cartesian Scholar's Dilemma 11
III. The Source of the Obscurity 23
IV. Logical Form, Universality, Linguisticism, and Locke 41
V. How the Concept Containment Notion of Analyticity was Lost 52
VI. Regaining the Concept Containment Notion of Analyticity 60
VII. The Analytic Entailment of Existential Sentences 98
VIII. The Cogito as an Analytic Entailment 118
IX. Cartesian Scholarship Revisited 131
X. The Nature of Analysis 144
XI. The Cogito and Indubitability 159
XII. On the Existence of a Thinker 168
XIII. A Brief Revisionist History of Analyticity 179
Notes 186
Index 199
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