Logic

Bringing together scholars from a broad range of theoretical perspectives, The Language of Argumentation offers a unique overview of research at the crossroads of linguistics and theories of argumentation. In addition to theoretical and methodological...

Prior's view on intensionality and truth is based on the principle that sentences never name, that what sentences say cannot be otherwise signified, that a sentence says what it says whatever the type of its occurrence, and that sentential quantification...

This volume collects selected papers presented at the Second Chinese Conference on Logic and Argumentation in 2018 held in Hangzhou, China. The papers presented reflect recent advances in logic and argumentation, as well as the connections between the...

Recent work in argumentation theory has emphasized the nature of arguers and arguments along with various theoretical perspectives. Less attention has been given to the third feature of any argumentative situation - the audience. This book fills that gap...

This monograph shows that, through a recourse to the concepts and methods of abstract algebraic logic, the algebraic theory of regular varieties and the concept of analyticity in formal logic can profitably interact. By extending the technique of Plonka...

1. 1. The Principle of Universalizability-an informal explication This work is concerned with the so-called Principle of Universalizability. As we shall understand it, this principle represents a claim that moral properties of things (persons, actions,...

This book investigates the philosophy of education implicit in the semiotics of Charles Peirce. It is commonly accepted that the acts of learning and teaching imply affection of some sort, and Charles Peirce's evolutionary semiotics thoroughly explains...

This book intends to unite studies in different fields related to the development of the relations between logic, law and legal reasoning. Combining historical and philosophical studies on legal reasoning in Civil and Common Law, and on the often...

The second volume is devoted to issues of compositionality that arouse in the sciences of language, the investigation of the mind, and the modeling of representational brain functions. How could compositional languages evolve? How many sentences are...

These two volumes contain all of my articles published between 1956 and 1975 which might be of interest to readers in the English-speaking world. The first three essays in Vol. 1 deal with historical themes. In each case I as far as possible, meets con...

This volume is easily accessible to young people and mathematicians unfamiliar with logic. It gives a terse historical picture of Model Theory and introduces the latest developments in the area. It further provides 'hands-on' proofs of elimination of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789401755894Author Zygmunt ZiembinskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 437Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 663g

Quine's set theory, New Foundations, has often been treated as an anomaly in the history and philosophy of set theory. In this book, Sean Morris shows that it is in fact well-motivated, emerging in a natural way from the early development of set theory...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848901148Author John WoodsFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 819gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

This book offers a state-of-the-art introduction to the basic techniques and results of neighborhood semantics for modal logic. In addition to presenting the relevant technical background, it highlights both the pitfalls and potential uses of...

Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848900738Author Abel Lassalle CasanaveFormat PaperbackPage Count 150Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 221g

The work of which this is an English translation appeared originally in French as Precis de logique mathematique. In 1954 Dr. Albert Menne brought out a revised and somewhat enlarged edition in German (Grund riss der Logistik, F. Schoningh, Paderborn)...

This book presents adaptive logics as an intuitive and powerful framework for modeling defeasible reasoning. It examines various contexts in which defeasible reasoning is useful and offers a compact introduction into adaptive logics. The author first...

This book is based on my doctoral dissertation written at Harvard University in the year of 1963. My interest in Peirce was inspired by Professor D. C. Williams and that in Lewis by Professor Roderick Firth. To both of them lowe a great deal, not only in...

After more than a decade teaching ancient Greek history and philosophy at University College, Oxford, British philosopher and political theorist Bernard Bosanquet (1848-1923) resigned from his post to spend more time writing. He was particularly...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503588926Author Nadja GermannFormat HardbackPage Count 422Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 239mm * 160mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848902732Author Guillermo E Rosado HaddockFormat PaperbackPage Count 520Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 721g

This book applies the formal discipline of logic to everyday discourse. It offers a new analysis of the notion of individual, suggesting that this notion is linguistic, not ontological, and that anything denoted by a proper name in a well-functioning...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781647431938Author Peter HollinsFormat HardbackPage Count 222Imprint Pkcs Media, Inc.Publisher Pkcs Media, Inc.Weight(grams) 127g

This book introduces a new form of argumentative analysis: rhetorical heuremes. The method applies the concepts of heuristic thinking, probability, and contingency in order to develop a better understanding of complex arguments in classical oratory. A...

This monograph is designed to provide an introduction to the principal areas of tense logic. Many of the developments in this ever-growing field have been intentionally excluded to fulfill this aim. Length also dictated a choice between the alternative...

This book is intended to be a survey of the most important results in mathematical logic for philosophers. It is a survey of results which have philosophical significance and it is intended to be accessible to philosophers. I have assumed the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999108649Author Douglas McManamanFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint DpmPublisher DpmWeight(grams) 222g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781938421389Author Richard L EpsteinFormat PaperbackPage Count 194Imprint Advanced Reasoning ForumPublisher Advanced Reasoning ForumWeight(grams) 231g

This book explores some of Kit Fine's outstanding contributions to logic, philosophy of language, philosophy of mathematics, and metaphysics, among others.Contributing authors address in-depth issues about truthmaker semantics, counterfactual...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9798893895469Author Jerry Robert BainFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint ArpressPublisher ArpressWeight(grams) 181g

This book is dedicated to the life and work of the mathematician Joachim Lambek (1922-2014). The editors gather together noted experts to discuss the state of the art of various of Lambek's works in logic, category theory, and linguistics and to...

The purpose of this brief introduction is to describe the origin of the papers here presented and to acknowledge the help of some of the many individuals who were involved in the preparation of this volume. Of the eighteen papers, nine stem from the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848900868Author Catarina Dutilh NovaesFormat PaperbackPage Count 284Imprint College PublicationsPublisher College PublicationsWeight(grams) 402g

These two volumes contain all of my articles published between 1956 and 1975 which might be of interest to readers in the English-speaking world. The first three essays in Vol. 1 deal with historical themes. In each case I as far as possible, meets con...

When asked in 1962 on what he was working Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz replied: Several years ago Polish Scientific Publishers suggested that I pre pare a new edition of The Logical Foundations of Teaching, which I wrote 1 before 1939 as a contribution to The...

Of the four chapters in this book, the first two discuss (albeit in consider ably modified form) matters previously discussed in my papers 'On the Logic of Conditionals' [1] and 'Probability and the Logic of Conditionals' [2], while the last two present...

This volume is dedicated to Leo Esakia's contributions to the theory of modal and intuitionistic systems. Consisting of 10 chapters, written by leading experts, this volume discusses Esakia's original contributions and consequent developments that have...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789024702404Author Herbert SpiegelbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint SpringerPublisher SpringerWeight(grams) 540gDimensions(mm) 234mm * 156mm * 20mm