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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797800103321

Autore

Englebretsen George

Titolo

Exploring topics in the history and philosophy of logic / / George Englebretsen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berlin, [Germany] ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : De Gruyter, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

3-11-043381-8

3-11-043504-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (198 p.)

Collana

Philosophische Analyse, , 2198-2066 ; ; Band 67 = Philosophical Analysis ; ; Volume 67

Disciplina

160.9

Soggetti

Logic

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 -- Getting Oriented -- Contents -- 1. Liar’s Lookout -- 2. Ryle’s Way With the Liar* by Fred Sommers -- 3. The Logic Mountain Range -- 4. On the Term Functor Trail -- 5. The Four Corners -- 6. Referential Falls -- 7. Strawberry Fields -- 8. Into the Metaphysical Bogs -- 9. Ratiocination: An Empirical Account* by Fred Sommers -- 10. Back to Logic Lodge, Base Camp -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

While post-Fregean logicians tend to ignore or even denigrate the traditional logic of Aristotle and the Scholastics, new work in recent years has shown the viability of a renewed, extended, and strengthened logic of terms that shares fundamental features of the old syllogistic. A number of logicians, following the lead of Fred Sommers, have built just such a term logic. It is a system of formal logic that not only matches the expressive and inferential powers of today’s standard logic, but surpasses it and is far simpler and more natural. This book aims to substantiate this claim by exhibiting just how the term logic can shed need light on a variety of challenges that face any system of formal logic.