Assignment 8

for the week of November 13

Instructions

By Monday, November 13:

· Chapter 11 of TTT, pp. 275-287.

By Wednesday, November 15:

· Read rest of Chapter 11 in TTT

· Turn in the homework assignment at the beginning of class on Monday, November 20.

Homework assignment

The answers to the first question should be a couple of paragraphs long, somewhere between a “medium” and a “long” answer.

1. Explain carefully how Kant, Frege, and Hume account for the truth of the statement “5+7=12.”

2. Study questions 1 through 4 on p. 266.