1st Edition

Logic and How it Gets That Way

By Dale Jacquette Copyright 2010
320 Pages
by Routledge

320 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

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... Read more
Preface Introduction: logic, philosophy, analysis 1. Logical form 2. Monkey raisins 3. The secret life of truth functions 4. Reference and identity 5. Intensional versus extensional semantics 6. Truth 7. Logical and semantic paradoxes Conclusion: Moral lessons of logic Notes Bibliography Index

Biography

Dale Jacquette