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Title: Excellent
Review: Roger Scruton provides an excellent introduction and survey (500 pages plus notes). The best part of the book is that it is organized topically; so, rather than a series of short biographical studies, you get an overview of an issue. For example, there is an excellent discussion of what Frege, Russell, Meinong & Strawson were trying to accomplish.Scruton is also funny: "[Ayer's] Language, Truth and Logic . . . should be read if possible, provided it is read quickly and innatentively. The details of the argument are preposterous . . . ."
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