The Concept of Meaninglessness

• Auteur principal: Erwin, Edward (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Johns Hopkins University Press 2019
• Sujets: History of Western philosophy; History of philosophy, philosophical traditions
• Accès en ligne: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Originally published in 1970. Many contemporary philosophers have thought that certain philosophic disputes could be settled by using the concept of meaninglessness. To solve philosophic problems in this way, however, it seemed necessary to provide a reliable criterion for deciding when a particular...