A brief history of the paradox: philosophy and the labyrinths of the mind
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Main Author: Sorensen, Roy A. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford Oxford University Press 2003
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 373-380) and index
Anaximander and the riddle of origin -- Pythagoras's search for the common denominator -- Parmenides on what is not -- Sisyphus's rock and Zeno's paradoxes -- Socrates: the paradox of inquiry -- The Megarian identity crisis -- Eubulides and the politics of the liar -- A footnote to "Plato" -- Aristotle on fatalism -- Chrysippus on people parts -- Sextus Empiricus and the infinite regress of justification -- Augustine's pragmatic paradoxes -- Aquinas: can God have a biography? -- Ockham and the Insolubilia -- Buridan's sophisms -- Pascal's improbable calculations -- Leibniz's principle of sufficient reason -- Hume's all-consuming ideas -- The common sense of Thomas Reid -- Kant and the antinomy of pure reason -- Hegel's world of contradictions -- Russell's set -- Wittgenstein and the depth of a grammatical joke -- Quine's question mark
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xv, 394 pages)
ISBN:1423746651
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