Meaning and Argument
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-0-631-20582-1 (ISBN)
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"Meaning and Argument" shifts introductory logic from the traditional emphasis on proofs to the symbolization of arguments. Another distinctive feature of this book is that it shows how the need for expressive power and for drawing distinctions forces formal language development. At each stage of system elaboration and development, the book answers metalogical questions: Why is a particular formalism needed? What must go into such a formalism and why? These questions engage students in a collective inquiry which allows them to see logical studies as a human enterprise aimed at achieving well-understood purposes - clarity and good reasoning. This volume is ideal as an introduction to formal logic, philosophical logic, and philosophy of language.
Ernest Lepore is Director of the Centre for Cognitive Science at Rutgers University. He is the author of numerous articles in philosophy of mind and is co-author (with Jerry Fodor) of Holism (Blackwell, 1991). He is editor of Truth and Interpretation (Blackwell, 1989). He is co-editor (with Zenon Pylyshyn) of What is Cognitive Science? (Blackwell, 1999), and co-editor (with Robert Van Gulick) of John Searle and His Critics (Blackwell, 1992), as well as general editor of the series Philosophers and Their Critics, also published by Blackwell.
/Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1. A Brief Introduction to Key Terms. 2. Argument Forms and Propositional Logic. 3. Conjunction. 4. Negation. 5. Truth Tables. 6. Disjunction. 7. Conditional. 8. Truth Trees. 9. Property Predicate Logic. 10. Evaluating Arguments in Property Predicate Logic. 11. Property Predicate Logic Refinements. 12. Relational Predicate Logic. 13. Relational Predicate Logic with Nested Quantifiers. 14. Extending the Truth Tree Method to RPL. 15. Negation, Only, and Restrictive Relative Clauses. 16. Relational Predicate Logic with Identity. 17. Verbs and their Modifiers. Appendix. Answers for Selected Exercises. Logical Symbols. Index.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 2.1.2000 |
|---|---|
| Reihe/Serie | Philosophy: The Big Questions |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 905 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Sprachphilosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-631-20582-9 / 0631205829 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-631-20582-1 / 9780631205821 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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