Textbook of Logic

ISBN-13: 9780367142643 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 336 str.

Wolf Abraham

Opis

Originally published in 1930, this well-known text by the late British philosopher Abraham Wolf offers the student a practical, consistent, and comprehensive approach to logic which remains unique in its field.

Spis treści

1. Logic and Scientific Method.  2. Judgment and Terms.  3. Categorical Propositions and Their Implications.  4. Immediate Inference - Opposition.  5. Immediate Inference - Eductions.  6. Immediate Inference - Derivative Eductions.  7. Other Immediate Inferences.  8. Mediate Inference.  9. Mediate Inference with a General Middle Term.  10. Deduction and Syllogism.  11. Abridged Syllogisms and Chains of Syllogisms.  12. Hypothetical Propositions and Inferences.  13. Alternative (or Disjunctive) Propositions and Inferences.  14. Dilemmas.  15. Inductive Inference and Associated Cognitive Activities.  16. Circumstantial Evidence.  17. Classification and Description.  18. The Evolutionary and Comparative Methods.  19. The Simpler Inductive Methods.  20. The Statistical Method.  21. The Deductive-Inductive Method.  22. Probability.  23. Order in nature and Laws of Nature.  24. Scientific Explanation.  25. Conclusion.

O autorze

Wolf Abraham