Means to Message
Subtitle: A Treatise on Truth
Publisher: Eerdmans Pub Co
Published: April 1999
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9780802846518
Subjects: Philosophy (General); Philosophy; Religious; Christian ministry & pastoral activity; Christian theology; Knowledge, Theory of; Epistemology; Christianity
Description: Every Philosophy is a Message. For conveying that message there has to be a tangible means, such as a book. Therefore, for the sake of a minimum of consistency, the philosopher's message or system should account in full for the reality of the means.

This new book by Stanley L. Jaki aims at unfolding the consequences of this minimum for the main topics of philosophy. The necessary first topic is the objective reality of the means, or in general "objects." Any neglect of this will result, Jaki argues, in philosophical sleights of hand that endlessly breed one another.

Jaki then removes some misconceptions about clarity, as usually identified with science, and demonstrates that science as such cannot account for the reality of the means that carries its message.