Logic and How It Gets That Way - Couverture rigide

Jacquette, Dale

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1844651428 ISBN 13 : 9781844651429

Editeur : Acumen Publishing Ltd, 2008

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Présentation de l'éditeur :

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.

Revue de presse :

'The questions this book deal with deserve close investigation. The book offers a rare opportunity to think about the limitations of our standard logic and semantic analysis from an overall perspective.' --Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: Acumen Publishing Ltd
• Date d'édition: 2008
• ISBN 10: 1844651428
• ISBN 13: 9781844651429
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 320