Volume 31, Number 20 · December 20, 1984
On the Frontier
By Ian Hacking
Inquiries into Truth and Interpretation
by Donald Davidson
Oxford University Press (Clarendon Press), 292 pp., $10.95 (paper)
There is no more creative or systematic philosopher at work in America today than Donald Davidson, but most people would find his essays formidable. This is not because they are long, convoluted, or technical, or because they are obscure or self-indulgent. On the contrary, it is because the prose is so plain, sparse, pruned, a prose long in preparation and short in delivery.
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