1st Edition
An Invitation to Formal Reasoning The Logic of Terms
280 Pages
by
Routledge
280 Pages
by
Routledge
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An Invitation to Formal Reasoning introduces the discipline of formal logic by means of a powerful new system formulated by Fred Sommers. This system, term logic, is different in a number of ways from the standard system employed in modern logic; most striking is its greater simplicity and naturalness. Based on a radically different theory of logical syntax than the one Frege used when... Read more
Contents: Reasoning: Introduction; The form of an argument; A word about the form of statements; The form of singular statements; Terms and statements; Symbolizing compound statements; A word about validity; How material expressions are meaningful; Terms; Some terms are ’vacuous’; Statement meaning; Truth and correspondence to facts; Propositions; ’States of affairs’; The facts and the facts; What statements denote; Summary and discussion on the meaning of statements; Picturing Propositions: State diagrams; Representing singular propositions; Entailments; Negative entailments; States and states; Positive and negative ’valence’; The limitations of state diagrams; The statement use of sentences; Truth relations; Logical syntax.
Biography
Fred Sommers, George Englebretsen
'Authored by the two foremost authorities on this subject, it is an up-to-date definitive statement of terminist philosophy.... On balance, this book is stimulating and thought-provoking. It would be an interesting experience to use it to teach an introductory course in formal logic. In addition to the copious examples, the book contains after each section a set of exercises to test comprehension.' The Bulletin of Symbolic Logic
