Logic and How It Gets That Way

Dale Jacquette

ISBN 10: 1844651428 / ISBN 13: 9781844651429

Edité par Taylor & Francis Dez 2008, 2008

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Neuware - In this challenging and provocative analysis, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the philosophical significance of certain formal properties of specific types of logical constructions. Exposing some of the key misconceptions about formal symbolic logic and its relation to thought, language and the world, Jacquette clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the most fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic. Having presented difficulties for conventional ways of thinking about truth functionality, the metaphysics of reference and predication, the role of a concept of truth in a theory of meaning, among others, Jacquette proceeds to reshape the network of ideas about traditional logic that philosophy has acquired along with modern logic itself. In so doing Jacquette is able to offer a new perspective on a number of existing problems in logic and philosophy of logic.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Logic and How It Gets That Way
• Éditeur: Taylor & Francis Dez 2008
• Date de parution: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 1844651428
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9781844651429
• Reliure: Buch
• État de l'article: Neu
• Dimensions: 251 L x 164 H x 30 P (en millimètres) 251 millimètres de largeur par 164 millimètres de hauteur par 30 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 627 grammes

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Synopsis

In this challenging and provocative analysis, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the philosophical significance of certain formal properties of specific types of logical constructions. Exposing some of the key misconceptions about formal symbolic logic and its relation to thought, language and the world, Jacquette clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the most fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic. Having presented difficulties for conventional ways of thinking about truth functionality, the metaphysics of reference and predication, the role of a concept of truth in a theory of meaning, among others, Jacquette proceeds to reshape the network of ideas about traditional logic that philosophy has acquired along with modern logic itself. In so doing Jacquette is able to offer a new perspective on a number of existing problems in logic and philosophy of logic.

À propos de l'auteur

Dale Jacquette is Senior Professorial Chair in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bern, Switzerland. He is the author of over twenty books of philosophy, including two other books for Acumen: Ontology (2002) and The Philosophy of Schopenhauer (2005).