Meaning and Argument - Ernest LePore

Meaning and Argument

An Introduction to Logic Through Language

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Buch | Softcover
456 Seiten
2003 | 2nd Revised edition
Blackwell Publishers (Verlag)
978-1-4051-0783-9 (ISBN)
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This introduction to logic and meaning offers a distinctive philosophical rather than a mathematical approach to the subject. The revision of the 2000 text includes additional and re-ordered exercises, new explanations of terms and concepts and an updated bibliography.
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. This volume is ideal as an introduction to formal logic, philosophical logic, and philosophy of language. 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 revised edition includes expanded sections, additional exercises, and an updated bibliography.Visit the book's website at: www .meaningargument.com

Ernest Lepore is Director of the Center 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.

Preface to Revised Edition.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 11.4.2003
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Allgemeines / Lexika
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Logik
Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sprachphilosophie
ISBN-10 1-4051-0783-9 / 1405107839
ISBN-13 978-1-4051-0783-9 / 9781405107839
Zustand Neuware
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