Logic and How It Gets That Way Tapa dura - 2010

-Routledge (2008)-. Actually, 2010. Published by Acumen (taken over by Routledge). Cloth. As new in dustjacket. 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… Leer más

Acumen Publishing, Limited , pp. 320 Index. Hardback. New.

Hardback. New. Clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

McGill Queens Univ Pr, 2010. Hardcover. New. 306 pages. 9.25x6.25x0.75 inches.