The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins

Download or read book The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins written by Jan Dejnozka and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 1996 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The analytic movement advertised its 'linguistic turn' as a radical break from the two-thousand-year-old substance tradition. But this is an illusion. On the fundamental level of ontology, there is enough reformulation and presupposition of traditional 'no entity without identity' themes to analogize Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine to Aristotle as paradigmatic of modified realism. Thus the pace of ontology is glacial. Frege and Russell, not Wittgenstein and Quine, emerge as the true analytic progenitors of 'no entity without identity, ' offering between them at least twenty-nine private language arguments and sixty-four 'no entity without identity' theories