Philosophy: logic Books
Cambridge University Press Gödel Tarski and the Lure of Natural Language
Book SynopsisIs mathematics ''entangled'' with its various formalisations? Or arethe central conceptsof mathematics largely insensitivetoformalisation, or ''formalism free''? What is the semantic point of view and how is it implemented in foundational practice? Does a given semantic framework always have an implicit syntax? Inspired bywhat she calls the ''natural language moves'' of Gödeland Tarski, Juliette Kennedy considers what rolesthe concepts of ''entanglement'' and ''formalism freeness'' play in a range oflogical settings, from computability and set theory to model theory and second order logic, to logicality, developing an entirely original philosophy of mathematics along the way. Thetreatment is historically, logically and set-theoretically rich, andtopics such as naturalism and foundations receive their due, but now with a new twist.Trade Review'Kennedy creatively embeds Gödel's ideal of 'formalism freeness' into myriad results in contemporary logic and foundations of mathematics, offering novel historical reconstructions of Tarski and Turing. A cutting-edge work of philosophy that synthesizes, while going beyond, our current ideas about foundations.' Juliet Floyd, Boston UniversityTable of Contents1. Introduction; 1.1 The Syntax/Semantics Distinction; 1.2 Our Logical Pluralism; 1.3 Formal vs Linguistic Semantics; 2. Formalism Freeness and Entanglement: Definitions; 2.1 Precedents; 2.2 Entanglement and Formalism Freeness: Varieties; 2.3 A Simple Preference for Semantic Methods?; 3. Computability: the Primary Example; 3.1 On Adequacy; 3.2 Different Notions of Computability Emerge in the 1930s; 3.3 The 'Scope Problem'; 3.4 Turing's Analysis of Computability; 3.5 Gödel's Reaction to Turing's Work at the Time; 3.6 Coda: a Word About Deviant Encodings; 4. Gödel and Formalism Independence; 4.1 Gödel on Formalism; 4.2 Episodes of Formalism Independence in Gödel's Writings; 4.3 Gödel's Princeton Bicentennial Lecture; 4.4 Implementation; 4.5 Logical Autonomy?; 5. Tarski and 'the Mathematical'; 5.1 'The Mathematical', Definable Sets of Reals, and Naïve Set Theory; 5.2 Tarski's Naturalism; 5.3 Squeezing First Order Definability; 5.4 Tarski and Logicality; 5.5 In Sum: Parataxis; 5.6 Coda: an Improvement of McGee's Theorem; 6. Model Theoretic Aspects; 6.1 Abstract Elementary Classes; 6.2 Patchwork Foundations, On-Again-Off-Again-Sim and Implicit Syntax; 6.3 Implicit Syntax, Implicit Logic; 6.4 A Remark on Set Theory; 6.5 Symbiosis; 6.6 Coda: Symbiosis in Detail; 7. On the Side of Natural Language.
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Cambridge University Press Logic of Statistical Inference
Book SynopsisOne of Ian Hacking''s earliest publications, this book showcases his early ideas on the central concepts and questions surrounding statistical reasoning. He explores the basic principles of statistical reasoning and tests them, both at a philosophical level and in terms of their practical consequences for statisticians. Presented in a fresh twenty-first-century series livery, and including a specially commissioned preface written by Jan-Willem Romeijn, illuminating its enduring importance and relevance to philosophical enquiry, Hacking''s influential and original work has been revived for a new generation of readers.Table of ContentsPreface to this edition Jan-Willem Romeijn; 1. Long run frequencies; 2. The chance set-up; 3. Support; 4. The long run; 5. The law of likelihood; 6. Statistical tests; 7. Theories of testing; 8. Random sampling; 9. The fiducial argument; 10. Estimation; 11. Point estimation; 12. Bayes' theory; 13. The subjective theory.
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Enlightenment
Book Synopsis“[Mr. Robertson] is [a] splendid writer, astoundingly versed in European letters and gifted at vividly sketching the views of the “Enlighteners.”… Robertson, armed with a prodigious knowledge of the Enlightenment’s literary output, has captured the tone and spirit of this milieu. -- Wall Street JournalNow in paperback, a magisterial history that recasts the Enlightenment as a period not solely consumed with rationale and reason, but rather as a pursuit of practical means to achieve greater human happiness.One of the formative periods of European and world history, the Enlightenment is the fountainhead of modern secular Western values: religious tolerance, freedom of thought, speech and the press, of rationality and evidence-based argument. Yet why, over three hundred years after it began, is the Enlightenment so profoundly misunderstood as controversial, the expression of soulless calculation? The answer may be that, to an extraordinary extent, we have accepted the account of the Enlightenment given by its conservative enemies: that enlightenment necessarily implied hostility to religion or support for an unfettered free market, or that this was “the best of all possible worlds”. Ritchie Robertson goes back into the “long eighteenth century,” from approximately 1680 to 1790, to reveal what this much-debated period was really about.Robertson returns to the era’s original texts to show that above all, the Enlightenment was really about increasing human happiness - in this world rather than the next - by promoting scientific inquiry and reasoned argument. In so doing Robertson chronicles the campaigns mounted by some Enlightened figures against evils like capital punishment, judicial torture, serfdom and witchcraft trials, featuring the experiences of major figures like Voltaire and Diderot alongside ordinary people who lived through this extraordinary moment.In answering the question ''What is Enlightenment?'' in 1784, Kant famously urged men and women above all to “have the courage to use your own intellect”. Robertson shows how the thinkers of the Enlightenment did just that, seeking a well-rounded understanding of humanity in which reason was balanced with emotion and sensibility. Drawing on philosophy, theology, historiography and literature across the major western European languages, The Enlightenment is a master-class in big picture history about the foundational epoch of modern times.
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Penguin Putnam Inc Arguing for a Better World
Book SynopsisIs it sexist to say that “men are trash”? Can white people be victims of racism? Do we bear any individual responsibility for climate change?We’ve all wrestled with questions like these, whether we’re shouting at a relative across the dinner table, quarreling with old classmates on social media, or chatting late into the night with friends. Many people give kneejerk answers that roughly align with their broader belief system, but flounder when asked for their reasoning, leading to a conversational stalemate—especially when faced with a political, generational, or cultural divide.The truth is that our answers to these questions almost always rely on unexamined assumptions. In Arguing for a Better World, philosopher Arianne Shahvisi shows us how to work through thorny moral questions by examining their parts in broad daylight, equipping us to not only identify our own positions but to defend them as well. This book demonstrates
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Oxford University Press Logic
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OUP India Logic
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MIT Press Ltd Argument and Inference An Introduction to
Book SynopsisA thorough and practical introduction to inductive logic with a focus on arguments and the rules used for making inductive inferences.This textbook offers a thorough and practical introduction to inductive logic. The book covers a range of different types of inferences with an emphasis throughout on representing them as arguments. This allows the reader to see that, although the rules and guidelines for making each type of inference differ, the purpose is always to generate a probable conclusion.After explaining the basic features of an argument and the different standards for evaluating arguments, the book covers inferences that do not require precise probabilities or the probability calculus: the induction by confirmation, inference to the best explanation, and Mill's methods. The second half of the book presents arguments that do require the probability calculus, first explaining the rules of probability, and then the proportional syllogism, inductive generalization
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MIT Press Ltd On the Brink of Paradox Highlights from the
Book SynopsisAn introduction to awe-inspiring ideas at the brink of paradox: infinities of different sizes, time travel, probability and measure theory, and computability theory.This book introduces the reader to awe-inspiring issues at the intersection of philosophy and mathematics. It explores ideas at the brink of paradox: infinities of different sizes, time travel, probability and measure theory, computability theory, the Grandfather Paradox, Newcomb's Problem, the Principle of Countable Additivity. The goal is to present some exceptionally beautiful ideas in enough detail to enable readers to understand the ideas themselves (rather than watered-down approximations), but without supplying so much detail that they abandon the effort. The philosophical content requires a mind attuned to subtlety; the most demanding of the mathematical ideas require familiarity with college-level mathematics or mathematical proof.The book covers Cantor's revolutionary thinking about infinity,
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Lutterworth Press Logic Made Easy
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Cengage Learning Introduction to Logic and Critical Thinking
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Taylor & Francis Ltd The New Critical Thinking An Empirically Informed
Book SynopsisWhy is it so hard to learn critical thinking skills? Traditional textbooks focus almost exclusively on logic and fallacious reasoning, ignoring two crucial problems. As psychologists have demonstrated recently, many of our mistakes are not caused by formal reasoning gone awry, but by our bypassing it completely. We instead favor more comfortable, but often unreliable, intuitive methods. Second, the evaluation of premises is of fundamental importance, especially in this era of fake news and politicized science.This highly innovative text is psychologically informed, both in its diagnosis of inferential errors, and in teaching students how to watch out for and work around their natural intellectual blind spots. It also incorporates insights from epistemology and philosophy of science that are indispensable for learning how to evaluate premises. The result is a hands-on primer for real world critical thinking. The authors bring over four combined decades of classroom expeTrade Review"This is among the very best critical thinking textbooks I've ever seen. What distinguishes it from others, besides its clarity and accessibility, is that it doesn't simply explain the norms of good reasoning and the common ways in which people flout those norms; it also explains the mechanisms that cause us to flout those norms more or less predictably, and thereby helps us to refute the voice of the primitive cave dweller who lives in our brain." --Ram Neta, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill"Critical thinking is all too often taught as basic deductive logic with a passing reference to inductive logic. Lyons and Ward’s empirical approach to critical thinking draws upon the vast literature in cognitive psychology on heuristics and biases. They expertly blend traditional coverage of deductive logic, inductive logic, causal inference, and probability theory with important psychological results. The final product is a refreshing and promising method to train people how to critically evaluate pressing claims."--Ted Poston, University of South Alabama "Logicians have developed accurate methods of testing reasoning for such desirable properties as deductive validity and inductive strength. Recent work in cognitive science has shown, however, that in everyday life we tend to evaluate reasoning on the basis of heuristics that fail to track these properties reliably. Lyons and Ward's brilliant book is the first to acknowledge this gap between theory and practice and to develop effective strategies for overcoming it. Bravo!"--Christopher Hill, Brown University"The New Critical Thinking is perfect for introductory students. The approach is original in its being psychologically-informed, and it's practical. It will actually help students become sharper thinkers outside the classroom." --Aaron R. Champene, St. Louis Community College, MeramecTable of ContentsTable of ContentsAcknowledgementsPreface to Instructors Introduction To Critical Thinking 1. The Aims and Causes of Belief2. Reasoning and Dual Systems Theory3. Reasoning, Evidence, and Arguments4. Why Reason (Properly)?5. Plan for the BookSummaryPart I: DeductionChapter 1: Validity: Why it Matters 1. Distinguishing the Good From the Bad2. Validity and Impossibility3. More on Logical Impossibility Logical Terms Equivocation4. Logic and the Belief Bias5. Why it Matters: Missing Premises and Insisting on Validity SummaryChapter 2 : Proving Invalidity and Proving Validity 1. Proving Invalidity by Counterexample2. Proving Validity3. Negations, Indicative Conditionals, and Two Important Valid Argument Forms Conditionals and the Wason Test4. Two Important Fallacies: Denying the Antecedent and Affirming the Consequent An Important Note about Fallacious Argument Forms5. More Valid Argument Forms and More About Conditionals 6. Equivalent Sentences and Disguised Conditionals7. Even More Valid Argument Forms: Aristotelian Syllogisms in One Bite Using Euler Diagrams:8. Summation: Evaluating Arguments SummaryChapter 3. Reconstructing and Identifying Deductive Arguments 1. Identifying by Evaluating2. Mapping Complex Arguments3. Reconstructing by Connecting the Dots4. Extra Help: Premise and Conclusion Indicators5. Putting All This TogetherSummaryPart II: InductionChapter 4: Inductive Arguments 1. Statistical Syllogism Conditional Support Comes in Degrees Undermining By Additional Information and the Requirement of Total Evidence2. Defeaters and Mapping Inductive Arguments3. Inductive Generalization Defeaters for Inductive Generalizations The Availability Heuristic4. Argument from Analogy Defeaters for Analogical Inference Deductive Arguments with Analogical Premises5. Inference to the Best Explanation6. Balance of Features7. Confirmation BiasSummaryChapter 5: Causal Inference 1. The Nature of Causation One More Thing about Causation2. "The" Cause? Singling out Causes in a Complex World3. Identifying Causes4. Causation, Correlation, and Confounds Some Varieties of Causal Investigations Better and Worse5. Causal Narratives6. Singular Causes RevisitedSummaryChapter 6: Probability and Frequency 1. Introduction to Probability Probabilities and System 12. Frequencies and Frequency Trees3. The Probability Calculus4. Bayes’s Theorem The Theorem Frequency Trees and Bayes5. Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics "Averages" How to Live Effect Size and Effect SignificanceSummaryChapter 7: Reconstructing and Identifying Arguments, Revisited 1. Reconstructing and Identifying2. Mapping More Complex ArgumentsPart III: Truth: Evaluating PremisesChapter 8: Testimony1. The Need for Testimony2. How Can you Spot the Experts if You’re Not an Expert? Sincerity, Competence, Trustworthiness Mapping Arguments from Authority Testimony and Ad Hominem3. Epistemological Perils of the Internet News, Unreliable News, and Fake News4. Wikipedia5. Fair and Balanced?SummaryChapter 9: Science 1. Disagreeing with Science: The Earth is Flat and Star Trek is Real2. Why Trust Science?3. How Does Science Work? Provability Falsifiability4. Hypotheses, Theories, and Conjectures5. Extended Example: Evolution and Historical Explanation6. Science in the Non-Science Press P-hacking7. Applying What We’ve Learned: Crowds, Self-selection, and Causal Fallacies Democracy and Scientific FactSummaryPart IV: ArgumentationChapter 10: Rhetoric 1. Emotion and Belief2. Influencing and Bypassing Reasoning Apt Feelings3. Abuses of Emotive Rhetoric Ad hominem Ad Populum and Peer Pressure Appeals to Force, Pity and Consequences Other Uses of Emotive Language 4. Rhetorical Tricks with Language5. Enthymemes, again6. Rhetoric and Cognitive IllusionSummaryChapter 11: Dialectic 1. The Dynamics of Argumentation The First Golden Rule of Constructive Argumentation: Respond to the Argument The Second Golden Rule: Track the Burden of Proof The Third Golden Rule: Demand Overall Consistency The Fourth Golden Rule: Be Charitable2. Ultimate Premises Depriving the Claimant of Premises3. Analogy, Parity of Reasoning, and Tu QuoqueSummaryAppendix of Fallacies Index
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McGraw Hill Education India Looseleaf for the Logic Book
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McGraw-Hill Education Connect Access Card for the Power of Logic
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McGraw Hill Education India Looseleaf for the Power of Logic
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McGraw-Hill Companies Looseleaf for Critical Thinking
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Basic Books Proof
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PublicAffairs Stop Being Reasonable: How We Really Change Our
Book Synopsis A thought-provoking exploration of how people really change their minds, and how persuasion is possible.In Stop Being Reasonable, Eleanor Gordon-Smith weaves a narrative that illustrates the limits of human reason. Here, she tells the stories of people who have radically altered their beliefs--from the woman who had to reckon with her husband''s terrible secret to the man who finally left the cult he had been raised in since birth. Gordon-Smith shows how we can change the course of our own lives, and asks: what made someone change course? How should their reversals affect how we think about our own beliefs? And in an increasingly divided world, what do they teach us about how we might change the minds of others? Inspiring, perceptive, and moving, Stop Being Reasonable explores why resistance to evidence is often rooted in self-preservation and fear, why we feel shame in admitting we are wrong, and why who we believe is often more important than what we believe. This fascinating book will completely change the way you look at the power of persuasion.
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Aristotle in 90 Minutes
Book Synopsis“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.Trade ReviewWell-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them...I find them hard to stop reading. -- Richard Bernstein * The New York Times *Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. -- Jim Holt * The Wall Street Journal *Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character...I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. -- Katherine A. Powers * The Boston Globe *A godsend in this era of the short attention span. -- Daryl Royster Alexander * The New York Times *
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Plato in 90 Minutes
Book Synopsis“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.Trade ReviewWell-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them...I find them hard to stop reading. -- Richard Bernstein * The New York Times *Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. -- Jim Holt * The Wall Street Journal *Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character...I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. -- Katherine A. Powers * The Boston Globe *A godsend in this era of the short attention span. -- Daryl Royster Alexander * The New York Times *
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Ivan R Dee, Inc Descartes in 90 Minutes
Book Synopsis“Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character....I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one’s friends to Western civilization.”—Katherine A. Powers, Boston Globe. “Well-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them....I find them hard to stop reading.”—Richard Bernstein, New York Times. “Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise.”—Jim Holt, Wall Street Journal. These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.Trade ReviewWell-written, clear and informed, they have a breezy wit about them...I find them hard to stop reading. -- Richard Bernstein * The New York Times *Witty, illuminating, and blessedly concise. -- Jim Holt * The Wall Street Journal *Each of these little books is witty and dramatic and creates a sense of time, place, and character...I cannot think of a better way to introduce oneself and one's friends to Western civilization. -- Katherine A. Powers * The Boston Globe *A godsend in this era of the short attention span. -- Daryl Royster Alexander * The New York Times *Paul Strathern offers a concise, expert account of Descartes’ life and ideas. * Audible.Com *
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Parmenides Publishing Image and Paradigm in Plato's Sophist
Book SynopsisThe Sophist sets out to explain what the sophist does by defining his art. But the sophist has no art. Plato lays out a challenging puzzle in metaphysics, the nature of philosophy, and the limitation of philosophy that is unraveled in this new and unconventional interpretation.Here is a new translation of this important late Platonic dialogue, with a comprehensive commentary that reverses the dominant trends in the scholarship of the last fifty years. The Sophist is shown to be not a dry exposition of doctrine, but a rich exercise in dialectic, which reveals both the Eleatic roots of Platonic metaphysics and Plato’s criticism of unrevised Eleaticism as a theoretical underpinning for sophistry.The Sophist is presented now not as an artefact of the intellectual past or precursor of late 20th century philosophical theories, but as living philosophy. In a new translation and interpretation, this late dialogue is shown to be a defense of not a departure from Plato’s metaphysics.The book is intended to provide a complete interpretation of Plato's Sophist as a whole. Central to the methodology adopted is the assumption that all elements of the dialogue to be understood must be understood in the context of the dialogue as a whole and in its relation to other works in the Platonic corpus.Three main points are argued: 1) the dialogue does not present a definitive or positive doctrine of the late Plato, but has the structure of a reductio ad absurdum; 2) the figure of the sophist is employed to critically examining the metaphysics of Parmenides. While acknowledging a core of metaphysical insight in Parmenides, the argument implies that, by failing to account for resemblance, Eleaticism implies an inadequate theory of relations, which makes impossible an adequate understanding of essence. Consequently, Eleaticism unrevised can be taken as the philosophical underpinning for the antithesis of philosophy, lending legitimacy to sophistry; 3) the criticism constitutes an indirect argument for Platonic metaphysics, which has roots in Eleaticism, that is, for the Theory of Forms.Trade Reviewthere are things to be grateful for in this book; above all, it is well argued and clearly written. And, just because of its difficulties, Sophist is studied less than many Platonic dialogues: it is good to have a new translation and a thought-provoking book-length commentary"". - Heythrop Journal
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Classiques Garnier Homo Externatus lHomme Procedural
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Brepols N.V. John of Salisbury on Aristotelian Science
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Brepols N.V. Formal Approaches and Natural Language in
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Brepols N.V. Boethius. on Topical Differences: A Commentary
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin de la Logique Interne
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Logique Inductive Et Probabilite: 1945-1970
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Questions d'Attitudes: Essai de Philosophie
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Theorie de la Connaissance: Edition Du Centenaire
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Introduction a la Theorie de la Demonstration:
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Archives Du Virtuel
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Penser Par Diagramme
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Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin Denis Vernant En Dialogues: Logique, Pragmatique,
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Duncker & Humblot Das Beste Von Hegel - The Best of Hegel
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Harrassowitz Platons 'Sophistes': Bild Und Wissen Im Dialog
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann The Metaphysics of Logical Consequence
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Faultless Disagreement: A Defense of
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Verlag Vittorio Klostermann Semantic Pluralism
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Schwabe Verlag The Development of Arabic Logic (1200-1800)
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Schwabe Verlagsgruppe AG Grundsatze Des Philosophierens
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Universitatsverlag Winter Thoughts, Logic, and Metalogic: An Investigation
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Logos Verlag Berlin Eine Logik Von Handlungen Und Uberzeugungen
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V&R Unipress Logik Der Umgangssprache
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Brill U Mentis How to Swim in Sinking Sands: The Sorites Paradox
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Brill Mentis Bedeutung Und Bedeutsamkeit: Philosophische
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Brill Mentis Abaelards Logik
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Peeters Publishers Anonymi Introductiones Montane Maiores: An
Book SynopsisIt has been a long time ago since Professor De Rijk first drew our attention to an important Parisian manuscript containing two treatises on logic, both connected with the School of the Montani. The school was established in the twelfth century on the Mont Sainte Geneviève (which is situated in what is nowadays known as the Quartier Latin). It was dominated by master Alberic (Albericus) of Paris. The Montani were the heirs (faithful or not) of Pierre Abelard, Robert of Melun and this master Alberic. The present work aims to provide a first working edition of one of the treatises in the manuscript, the Introductiones Montane maiores. This introductory work on logic contains a wealth of information about the way in which logic was taught and practiced in the schools of Paris of the twelfth century. It also gives insight into the vicissitudes of the teachings of different Parisian masters. The edition is preceded by an extensive introduction, with information about the origins and contents of the text and discussions of some interesting doctrinal elements.
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Peeters Publishers Les usages du possible
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