Exploring Topics in the History and Philosophy of Logic

1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-3-11-044223-6
Verlag: De Gruyter

Buch, Englisch, 183 Seiten, Format (B × H): 160 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 458 g

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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.

Zielgruppe

All those interested in logic, philosophy of language and theorie

Autoren/Hrsg.

Englebretsen, George

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Philosophische Logik, Argumentationstheorie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Geschichte der Westlichen Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Wissenschafts- und Universitätsgeschichte

Über Autor(innen)

George Englebretsen, Bishop’s University, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.