Russell Hasan

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Everything is Something: A Philosophical Dialogue About Logic, Language, Words, Meanings, Truth, and The Theory of Things (eBook, ePUB)

Beschreibung

This short philosophical dialogue is written in the style of Plato but with substance that is closer to Aristotle. It is written in a way that is simple, engaging, and easy to understand, while at the same time tackling and grappling head on with some of the most complicated, difficult questions and issues ever posed in the history of philosophy. What is a thing? What is logic? Why is logic capable of proof? What is language? What are words? What is the meaning of a statement? How does language work? What is truth? What do we mean when we say that a statement is true?
This essay is a synthesis of Analytic philosophy and Objectivist philosophy and will be of interest to anyone who has read, for example, Bertrand Russell, Kurt Gödel, Ludwig Wittgenstein, or Ayn Rand. It is the author's position that the scope of logic is infinite and that logic has no limits, and that language is a system where statements in a language correspond to objects in reality, such that a statement is true if the object to which it refers exists, and a statement is false if its object does not exist. The essay will solve, and refute, various arguments that are famous in the philosophy of logic and which purport to place limits upon the scope of logic, such as Russell's Paradox, Gödel's theorems on the incompleteness of logic, and Wittgenstein's theory of the philosophy of language as merely a series of moves in a language-game. This book is worth reading if only to see whether the author is capable of pulling off such a grand accomplishment, which would be a significant achievement in Analytic philosophy, if successful.

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Russell Hasan was born the son of a white Jewish mother and a dark-skinned Muslim fatherand that isn't the strangest thing about him. His father had ties to the mafianope, not the weirdest thing about him. He thought he was a gay man for many years before realizing he is agender asexualrelatively normal compared to what truly makes him strange. Do you want to know what the weirdest, strangest thing about Russell is?

He's a WRITER.

Yes, that's right. He writes. Why? How? Why would he want to do that to himself? How could he allow this to happen to himself? He is still trying to figure that one out. Therapy can cure lots of things and alcohol and drugs can cure other things, but the only cure for being a writer is to write, so he writes. He's not into BDSM, yet for some reason he has chosen to punish himself by having a passion for writing and a need to write. Despite having made the huge mistake of choosing to be a writer, his books have sold over 10,000 copies, so perhaps it was not the worst mistake he ever made after all. He does not have one particular bestseller but has instead spread those 10,000 sales across many books he wrote. His magical journey of self-torture begins when he has the idea for a new book, and then continues when he wakes up at 6am to write from 6am to 8am before work every day (he has a day jobhe's not insane! His day job is being a lawyer, the most boring, evil job in the world, by the way), and, after many cups of Starbucks matcha tea and Coca Cola (never Pepsiyuck!) he somehow puts words onto a page. He has written 30 books, both nonfiction and fiction, but, as something of a twist on the traditional successful indie author model, he is known more for his indie nonfiction, not his fiction. But he does write fiction. Some of his fiction is good too, probably, he hopes.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Russell Hasan
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798231985586
• Artikelnr.: 74060488