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| Document Type: | Book |
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| All Authors / Contributors: |
Graham Priest |
| ISBN: | 0192893203 9780192893208 |
| OCLC Number: | 44683462 |
| Description: | 140 p. : ill. ; 18 cm. |
| Contents: | 1. Validity : what follows from what? -- 2. Truth functions : 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 -- A little history and some further reading. |
| Series Title: | Very short introductions, 29. |
| Responsibility: | Graham Priest. |
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Abstract:
An introduction to modern formal logic, this book explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how it deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time, to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Each chapter takes some philosophical problem, and explains how it may be handled in modern logic.
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<br>"This book is terrific... It covers a lot of ground, but in a wonderfully relaxed and interesting way."-Simon Blackburn, University of Cambridge and author of Think<p><br>"This text is ideal for giving students a quick introduction to formal logic or for adding pizzazz to an otherwise dry logic course."--Glenn Ross, Franklin & Marshall College<p><br> Read more...
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