Logic

Call Number

  • 160 P9492 (CEN)

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Edition

Illustrated ed.

Publication Information

New York : Sterling Pub., 2010, c2000.

Physical Description

ix, 182 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.

Contents

  • Validity : what follows from what?
  • Truth functions-- or not
  • Names and quantifiers : is nothing something?
  • Descriptions and existence : did the greeks worship Zeus?
  • Self-reference : what is this chapter about?
  • Necessity and possibility : what will be must be?
  • Conditionals: what's in an if?
  • The future and the past : is time real??
  • Identity and change : is anything ever the same?
  • Vagueness : how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope?
  • Probability : the strange case of the missing reference class?
  • Inverse probability : you can't be indifferent about it!
  • Decision theory : great expectations?
  • A little history and some further reading?

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