The limits of logical empiricism selected papers of Arthur Pap /

Arthur Pap's work played an important role in the development of the analytic tradition. This role goes beyond the historical fact that Pap's views of dispositional and modal concepts were influential. His philosophical preoccupation, the concepts of necessity and possibility, provides sol...

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Main Author: Pap, Arthur, 1921-1959.
Other Authors: Keupink, Alfons., Shieh, Sanford, 1962-, SpringerLink (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language: English
Published: Dordrecht : Springer, 2006.
Dordrecht : 2006.
Physical Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 394 pages).
Series: Synthese library ; v. 334.
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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminaries; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; On the Meaning of Necessity (1943); The Different Kinds of A Priori (1944); Logic and the Synthetic A Priori (1949); Are all Necessary Propositions Analytic? (1949); Necessary Propositions and Linguistic Rules (1955); Note on the "Semantic" and the "Absolute" Concepts of Truth (1952); Propositions, Sentences, and the Semantic Definition of Truth (1954); Belief and Propositions (1957); Semantic Examination of Realism (1947); Logic and the Concept of Entailment (1950); Strict Implication, Entailment, and Modal Iteration (1955).