Logic and the Art of Memory
Subtitle: The Quest for a Universal Language
Contributors: Stephen Clucas (Translator)
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
Published: December 15, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780226728261
Subjects: History of ideas, intellectual history; Logic; Philosophy of language; Philosophy Of Mind; Philosophy; History: World; Philosophy / Logic; Metaphysics; History; Language, Universal; Logic, Modern; Memory (Philosophy)
First sentence: In one of the fundamental works of modern philosophy, written in the midst of the Enlightenment, David Hume, in his discussion of common sense and memory argued that while the defects of common sense could not be remedied by art or invention, the defects of memory 'both in the field of business and the field of studies' could be minimized or eliminated altogether.