The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its Origins by Jan... - 9780822630531

The Ontology of the Analytic Tradition and Its OriginsRealism and Identity in Frege, Russell, Wittgenstein, and Quine\nAuthor(s): Jan Dejnozka\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, United States\nImprint: Rowman & Littlefield\nISBN-13: 9780822630531, 978-0822630531\nSynopsis\nThe 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.