Introduction to the Basic Concepts and Problems of Modern Logic

ISBN-13: 9789401031226 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 180 str.

G. Hasenjaeger; E. C. M. Mays

Opis

The field of modern logic is too extensive to be worked through by open cast mining. To open it up, we need to sink shafts and construct adits. This is the method of most text books: a systematic exposition of a number of main topics, supplemented by exercises to teach skill in the appurtenant techniques, lays a secure foundation for subsequent dis cussion of selected questions. Compared with this, the present treatment is more like a network of exploratory drillings to show that it would be worthwhile to start mining operations, or to work the existing shafts and adits, as the case may be. Within this metaphor we may also describe the inherent weakness of this conception: once a cavity is pierced, the duct's capacity will in general not be sufficient to carry away the discovered riches. But whether we are concerned with a new or an already worked mine - at any rate, the experience should stimulate us into either reviving an existing system of shafts or even, in particularly fortunate cases, designing a new ap proach."

Spis treści

I / Traditional and Modern Logic.- II/Logic as Ontology.- III/Logic as Linguistic Theory.- IV / Logic as Methodology.- V / Richer Logical Systems.- VI/Antinomies.- VII/Logic And The Critique of Reason.- VIII / Towards The Logic Of Probability.