Interpreting Spinoza's Arguments: Toward a Formal Theory of Consistent Language Scepticism : Initating Ethica (Studies in Linguistics and Semiotics, V. 15)

In support of both his scepticism and the solution offered, Dr. Nielsen argues a deep indebtedness to Spinoza's Ethica. Combining the techniques of historical interpretation with discussions of contemporary thought, the book effects first a radical criticism of customary intuitions, and then a logical presentation of what language, if adjusted to our intuitions, would look like. It is written with an acute knowledge of being itself, a specimen of what it argues and presents.