UID:
almafu_9960119545002883
Format:
1 online resource (xiii, 178 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
First edition.
ISBN:
9780511833045
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0511833040
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9780511520020
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0511520026
Content:
The Claims of Common Sense investigates the importance of ideas developed by Cambridge philosophers between the World Wars for the social sciences concerning common sense, vague concepts and ordinary language. John Coates examines the thought of Moore, Ramsey, Wittgenstein and Keynes, and traces their common drift away from early beliefs about the need for precise concepts and a canonical notation in analysis. He argues that Keynes borrowed from Wittgenstein and Ramsey their reappraisal of vague concepts, and developed the novel argument that when analysing something as complex as social reality, theory might be simplified by using concepts which lack sharp boundaries. Coates then contrasts this conclusion with the view shared by two contemporary philosophical paradigms - formal semantics and Continental post-structuralism - that the vagueness of ordinary language inevitably leads to interpretive indeterminacy. Developing a link between Cambridge philosophy and work on complexity, vague predicates and fuzzy logic, he argues that Wittgenstein's and Keynes's ideas on the economy of ordinary language present a mediating route for the social sciences between these philosophical paradigms.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 08 Oct 2015).
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1. A short history of common sense -- 2. Ideal languages and vague concepts: the transition in Cambridge philosophy -- 3. Keynes and Moore's common sense -- 4. Keynes's later views on vagueness and definition -- 5. Samples, generalizations, and ideal types -- 6. The Cambridge philosophical community -- Conclusion: complexity, vagueness, and rhetoric.
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521039581
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521039584
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780521412568
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0521412560
Language:
English
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