Logic: A Very Short Introduction
(Sprache: Englisch)
Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability. Explaining formal logic in simple, non-technical...
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Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability. Explaining formal logic in simple, non-technical terms, this edition includes new sections on mathematical algorithms, axioms, and proofs.
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Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability. Explaining formal logic in simple, non-technical terms, this edition includes new sections on mathematical algorithms, axioms, and proofs.
Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Logic: A Very Short Introduction “
- Preface to Second Edition
- Preface to First Edition
- 1: Validity: what follows from what?
- 2: Truth funtions - or not?
- 3: Names and quantifiers: is nothing something?
- 4: Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus?
- 5: Self-reference: What is this chapter about?
- 6: Necessity and possibility: what will be must be?
- 7: Conditionals: what's in an if?
- 8: The future and the past: is time real?
- 9: Identity and change: is anything ever the same?
- 10: Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope?
- 11: Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class
- 12: Inverse probability: you can't be indifferent about it!
- 13: Decision theory: great expectations
- 14: Halt! What goes there?
- 15: Maybe it is true - but you can't prove it!
- A little history and some further reading
- Glossary
- Problems
- Problem solutions
- Bibliography
- General index
Autoren-Porträt von Graham Priest
Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center , as well as a regular visitor at the University of Melbourne (where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy). His books include Doubt Truth to be a Liar (OUP, 2008), One (OUP, 2014), and Towards Non-Being (2nd ed. OUP, 2016).Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Graham Priest
- 2017, 2nd edition, 192 Seiten, Maße: 11,1 x 17,2 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Oxford University Press
- ISBN-10: 0198811705
- ISBN-13: 9780198811701
- Erscheinungsdatum: 05.02.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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