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

• Autore: Rescher Nicholas
• Pubblicazione: Frankfurt, : Ontos Verlag, 2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (197 p.)
• Disciplina: 160.9
• Soggetto topico: Logic - History
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): RescherNicholas
• 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
• Titolo autorizzato: Studies in the history of logic
• ISBN: 3-11-032644-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910464281703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II