Thinking About Logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic

✍ Scribed by Stephen Read

Publisher: Oxford University Press
Year: 1995
Tongue: English
Leaves: 257
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

In this book, Stephen Read sets out to rescue logic from its undeserved reputation as an inflexible, dogmatic discipline by demonstrating that its technicalities and processes are founded on assumptions which are themselves amenable to philosophical investigation. He examines the fundamental principles of consequence, logical truth and correct inference within the context of logic, and shows that the principles by which we delineate consequences are themselves not guaranteed free from error. Central to the notion of truth is the beguiling issue of paradox. Its philosophical value, Read shows, lies in exposing the invalid assumption on which the paradox is built. Thinking About Logic also discusses logical puzzles which introduce questions relating to language, the world, and their relationship.

✦ Table of Contents

Title
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
1 Truth, Pure and Simple: Language and the World
The Correspondence Theory of Truth
Reductionism
Theories of Truth
Minimalist Theories of Truth
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
2 The Power of Logic Logical Consequence
The Classical Conception
Compactness
Matter and Form
Relevance
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
3 To Think But of an If: Theories of Conditionals
The Conversationalist Defence
Conditional Probability
The Similarity Account
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
4 The Incredulous Stare: Possible Worlds
Modal Platonism
Actualism
The Necessary and the A Priori
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
5 Plato’s Beard: On What There Is and What There Isn’t
Descriptions
Free Logic
Supervaluations
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
6 Well, I’ll be Hanged! The Semantic Paradoxes
The Truth Hierarchy
True Contradictions
Semantic Closure
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
7 Bald Men Forever: The Sorites Paradox
Vagueness
Analysis of the Sorites
Fuzzy Logic
Tolerance
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
8 Whose Line Is It Anyway? The Constructivist Challenge
The Infinite
Intuitionism
The Logical Argument
The Linguistic Argument
Summary and Guide to Further Reading
Select Bibliography
Glossary
Index

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