It always presents a particular problem when books like Dummett's _Truth and Other Enigmas_ get reviewed by someone who is not involved in the field to which the work belongs. In a sense, the earlier reviewer who so despised Dummett's book is right; the average person who picks it up will find it incomprehensible, narrow in its concerns and full of arcane terminology. Of course, the same would be true of some set of texts in any field of study that are geared towards its most devoted and well-read practitioners. Philosophy texts come in for greater scrutiny on this count because many people expect to be part of any philosophical discussion in a way they would not be part of every discussion about fluid dynamics, cytology or Galois theory.

That being said, measuring Dummett's book against the field to which it contributes at the level it is intended, one cannot deny it is a collection of some of the most important works of this half of the century. Dummett is still a difficult read even for those folks, but you'd better have a copy of it if you think about analytic philosophy.

That and it just bugged me to see it have only 3 stars.