London, Methuen & Co., (1952). 8vo. Full cloth w. gilt lettering. Signs of use and a few annotations. X,266 pp.
First edition of Strawson's first book.
Peter Frederick Strawson (1919-2006) - an influential spokesman for so-called ordinary language philosophy - began teaching at Oxford in 1947 and from 1968 to 1987 was Waynflete Professor of Metaphysics. In the present book, he studies the relationship between common language and the language of formal logic.
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