UID:
almahu_9947367682502882
Format:
1 online resource (1219 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-280-72914-7
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9786610729142
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0-08-046663-X
Series Statement:
Handbook of the philosophy of science
Content:
The papers presented in this volume examine topics of central interest in contemporary philosophy of logic. They include reflections on the nature of logic and its relevance for philosophy today, and explore in depth developments in informal logic and the relation of informal to symbolic logic, mathematical metatheory and the limiting metatheorems, modal logic, many-valued logic, relevance and paraconsistent logic, free logics, extensional v. intensional logics, the logic of fiction, epistemic logic, formal logical and semantic paradoxes, the concept of truth, the formal theory of entailment,
Note:
Description based upon print version of record.
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Front Cover; Philosophy of Logic; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; General Preface; Preface; List of Contributors; Introduction: Philosophy of Logic Today; Logic and philosophy; In the logic candy store; Understanding the plurality of logics; Future directions in philosophical logic and philosophy of logic; What is Logic?; 1 Logic and inference; 2 Deductive inference and information; 3 Analytic inferences; 4 Ampliative inference; 5 Logical vs. extralogical systematization; 6 Syntax vs. semantics; 7 The limits of syntactical approaches; 8 The limits of semantical approaches
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9 Strategic vs. definitory rules10 What is first-order logic?; 11 Presuppositions of the received first-order logic; 12 The meaning of quantifiers; 13 Semantical games; 14 The implications of independence-friendly logic: Axiomatizability; 15 Negation and its significance; 16 Higher-order logics; 17 A distinction without ontological difference?; 18 Alternative logics?; 19 Ampliative inference and acquisition of information; Bibliography; The Scope and Limits of Logic; 1 The broad sweep; 2 Definitions of logic; 3 Concepts that belong to logic; 4 The syllogism claim; 5 Patterns of reasoning
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6 Reduction to logic7 Quine's 'scope of logic'; 8 Logical notions; 9 How we ought to think?; Bibliography; Logic in Philosophy; 1 The century that was; 2 A joy-ride through history; 3 Logical form and natural logic: From syllogistics to generalized quantifiers; 4 Reasoning styles: From bolzano to conditional logic and AI; 5 Mechanisms of semantic interpretation: From tarski to 'dynamics'; 6 Theories and belief revision: From neo-positivism to computer science; 7 Dynamic logic, communication, action, and games; 8 Further themes; 9 Conclusion: Logic and philosophy once more; Acknowledgements
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BibliographyInformal Logic and The Concept of Argument; Technical and everyday senses of "argument"; Argument as discourse supporting a point of view by offering one or more reasons; Arguments as invitations to inference; Extensions: Potential arguments and equivalence classes of arguments; Complex direct arguments; Suppositional arguments; First summary; Competing conceptions of argument; Exclusions from the class of arguments; Second summary; Postscript; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; On the Relation of Informal to Symbolic Logic; 1 A strange dichotomy
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2 Toward a definition of formal and informal logic3 Formal and informal logic in partnership; 4 Conclusion; Acknowledgements; Bibliography; Vagueness and the Logic of Ordinary Language; 1 The epistemic diagnosis; 2 Does logic apply to the ordinary world?; 3 Vagueness in the platonic heavens; 4 Does logic apply to ordinary language?; 5 Vagueness as a pre-logical phenomenon; 6 Does logic only apply loosely?; 7 Truth-value gaps; 8 Logical pluralism; 9 Deviant logic; 10 Many-valued logic; 11 Family resemblance; 12 Prototypes; Bibliography; Logic and Semantic Analysis; 1 Introduction
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2 Some classic arguments
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-444-51541-0
Language:
English
