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Two Criteria For an Ideal Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2022

Gustav Bergmann*
Affiliation:
The State University of Iowa

Extract

The lucidity of Mr. Copilowish's argument makes the task of the reviewer very pleasant, even if he disagrees as completely as I do with the conclusion, which is the main thesis Mr. Copilowish attempts to prove. Only at one minor point does his exposition not quite suit my taste. He chose to preface his argument with a string of quotations supposedly supporting the position he wishes to defend. It seems to me that with the proper historical precautions these passages allow for a very different interpretation. Yet I shall not pursue this matter, partly because I believe that Mr. Copilowish merely followed a literary stereotype, but mainly because the issue ought to be discussed on its merits rather than through the clouds of witness one could adduce on either side.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Philosophy of Science Association 1949

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Footnotes

Paper read, in reply to the preceding one, at the Meeting of the Western Division of the American Philosophical Association, at Knox College in May 1948.