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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464281703321

Autore

Rescher Nicholas

Titolo

Studies in the history of logic [[electronic resource] /] / Nicholas Rescher

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2006

ISBN

3-11-032644-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (197 p.)

Collana

Nicholas Rescher collected papers ; ; v. 10

Disciplina

160.9

Soggetti

Logic - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: ON ARISTOTLE'S APODEICTIC SYLLOGISMS -- Chapter 2: AL-KINDĪ'S SKETCH OF ARISTOTLE'S ORGANON -- Chapter 3: A NINTH-CENTURY ARABIC LOGICIAN ON: IS EXISTENCE A PREDICATE? -- Chapter 4: AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OF "CONDITIONAL" PROPOSITIONS -- Chapter 5: AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OF QUESTIONS -- Chapter 6: THE ARABIC THEORY OF TEMPORAL MODAL SYLLOGISTIC -- Chapter 7: CHOICE WITHOUT PREFERENCE: THE PROBLEM OF "BURIDAN'S ASS" -- Chapter 8: LEIBNIZ'S INTERPRETATION OF HIS LOGICAL CALCULI -- Chapter 9: RUSSELL AND MODAL LOGIC -- Chapter 10: DEFAULT REASONING -- Name Index

Sommario/riassunto

It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher's interest, others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value. Throughout, challenges of the work itself more than compensated the author's efforts. Logic has always been of crucially important concern to philosophers. Rescher's own involvement with the history of logic goes back to his work on Leibniz in the 1950's (represented by Chapter 8 of the present book). There