I've finally started the book!
Even though it is co-written with De Paulis and Decker, I can just see Dummett's wonderful style shining through (as I did a thesis in the epistemology of mathematics, I had worked through, many years ago, his
Frege: Philosophy of Language,
Elements of Intuitionism, and
Truth and Other Enigmas - and more recently have also briefly looked at his
Frege: Philosophy of Mathematics and his
The Logical Basis of Metaphysics... how I wish these had been available earlier! - here is a philosopher sharing our interests, Kiama - and which has obtained a knighthood, I do believe
).
With regards to this Tarot book, then, I have not even completed the introduction, but do wish t/he/y would not make such gross assumptions as 'they [Hermetists] recoiled from the facts [of the dating of the
Corpus Hermeticum] and, in general, drove ever more swiftly toward irrationalism' (p7).
Nonetheless, I'm looking forward to continuing reading this great work.