Originally published in 1969. This book assumes no previous knowledge of logic but shows how logical notions arise from everyday discourse, whether technical or non-technical. It explains the connections between everyday reasoning and formal logic...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1967. An introduction to the literature of nonstandard logic, in particular to those nonstandard logics known as many-valued logics. Part I expounds and discusses implicational calculi, modal logics and many-valued logics a...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1964. This book is concerned with general arguments, by which is meant broadly arguments that rely for their force on the ideas expressed by all, every, any, some, none and other kindred words or phrases. A main obje...Daugiau...
This book addresses the argument in the history of the philosophy of science between the positivists and the anti-positivists. The author starts from a point of firm conviction that all science and philosophy must start with the given But that th...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1966. An introduction to current studies of kinds of inference in which validity cannot be determined by ordinary deductive models. In particular, inductive inference, predictive inference, statistical inference, and decisi...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1973. This book presents a valid mode of reasoning that is different to mathematical probability. This inductive logic is investigated in terms of scientific investigation. The author presents his criteria of adequacy for a...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1981. This is a book for the final year undergraduate or first year graduate who intends to proceed with serious research in philosophical logic. It will be welcomed by both lecturers and students for its careful considerat...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1990. A common complaint of philosophers, and men in general, has been that women are illogical. On the other hand, rationality, defined as the ability to follow logical argument, is often claimed to be a defining...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1931. This inquiry investigates and develops John Cook Wilsons view of the province of logic. It bases the study on the posthumous collected papers Statement and Inference. The author seeks to answer questions on th...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1941. Professor Ushenko treats of current problems in technical Logic, involving Symbolic Logic to a marked extent. He deprecates the tendency, in influential quarters, to regard Logic as a branch of Mathematics and advance...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1965. This is a textbook of modern deductive logic, designed for beginners but leading further into the heart of the subject than most other books of the kind. The fields covered are the Propositional Calculus...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1962. This book gives an account of the concepts and methods of a basic part of logic. In chapter I elementary ideas, including those of truth-functional argument and truth-functional validity, are explained. Chapter II beg...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1968. This is a critical study of the concept of rule featuring in law, ethics and much philosophical analysis which the author uses to investigate the concept of rationality. The author indicates in what manner the mod...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1985. This book is about a single famous line of argument, pioneered by Descartes and deployed to full effect by Kant. That argument was meant to refute scepticism once and for all, and make the world safe for science. I t...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1973. This book is for philosophy students who have limited background in mathematics. The author strikes a balance between material of a philosophical and a formal kind. Exercises within the text sit alongside the theoretical...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1962. A clear and simple account of the growth and structure of Mathematical Logic, no earlier knowledge of logic being required. After outlining the four lines of thought that have been its roots - the logic of Aristotle,...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1937. A short account of the traditional logic, intended to provide the student with the fundamentals necessary for the specialized study. Suitable for working through individualy, it will provide sufficient knowledge of th...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1966. Professor Reschers aim is to develop a logic of commands in exactly the same general way which standard logic has already developed a logic of truth-functional statement compounds or a logic of quantifiers. The...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1934. This fourth edition originally published 1954., revised by C. W. K. Mundle.It must be the desire of every reasonable person to know how to justify a contention which is of sufficient importance to be seriously...Daugiau...
Originally published in 1988. This text gives a lucid account of the most distinctive and influential responses by twentieth century philosophers to the problem of the unity of the proposition. The problem first became central to twentieth-century...Daugiau...
