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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Preface; E. Ejerhed, S. Lindström. 1: Action. On Action and Agency; R. Hilpinen. Delta Logic and Brown's Logic of Ability; K. Segerberg. Action and Deontology; J. Czelakowski. Prima Facie Oughtness vs. Oughtness All Things Considered in Deontic...

Preface. Introduction. Part A: Algebraic Foundations of Non-Classical Logics. I. alpha-Complete MV-algebras; L.P. Belluce. II. On MV-algebras of continuous functions; A. Di Nola, S. Sessa. III. Free and projective Heyting and monadic Heyting...

Editorial Foreword; R.S. Cohen. I: A Historico-Critical Introduction; I. Szumilewicz-Lachman. One: Some Data. Two: Kazimierz Twardowski (1866-1938), the Creator of the Lwów-Warsaw School. Three: The Lwów-Warsaw School (1895-1939). Four: The LWS...

From the mid-1960s, after the important works by J. Hintikka, S. Körner, W. Sellars and P.F. Strawson, there has been a marked revival of Kantian epistemological thought. Against this background, featuring fruitful exchange...

Poland has played an enormous role in the development of mathematical logic. Leading Polish logicians, like Lesniewski, Lukasiewicz and Tarski, produced several works related to philosophical logic, a field covering...

The first Symposium consisted of three people in a cafe in Warsaw in 1973. Since then, meetings have grown in size and have been held in Leyden, Copenhagen, Nijmegen, Rome, Oxford, Poitiers and Freiburg­ am-Breisgau. The ninth...

ments be thrown to the wind - in light of the fact that careful, precise, step-by-step deductive arguments will be presented below for each and every proposition that might be cavalierly regarded prima facie implausible. Key...

ways of doing it, but it is wrong to project it far into the past: it did not exist at the turn of the century and only became clearly apparent after the Second World War. I recently taught at an American university on the his­...

This volume is presented as a companion study to my translation of Galileo's MS 27, Galileo's Logical Treatises, which contains Galileo's appropriated questions on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics - a work only recently...

The present volume owes its existence to a proposal of Dr Esa Saarinen. Our aim was to celebrate the work of a living philosopher by presenting it both from his own point of view, through the medium of a philosophical ...

We must clearly distinguish between reality (the territory), and whatwe perceive to be reality (the map of the territory)! In our journeythrough life, we need something to guide us, to give us reassurancethat we are on the right track. Modern science has...

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are...

In this book, Livingston develops the political implications of formal results obtained over the course of the twentieth century in set theory, metalogic, and computational theory. He argues that the results achieved by thinkers such as Cantor, Russell,...

First published in 1952, professor's Strawson's highly influential Introduction to Logical Theory provides a detailed examination of the relationship between the behaviour of words in common language and the behaviour of symbols in a logical system. He...

Described by the philosopher A.J. Ayer as a work of 'great originality and power', this book revolutionized contemporary thinking on science and knowledge. Ideas such as the now legendary doctrine of 'falsificationism' electrified the scientific...

Coinciding with the renewed interest in Husserl and the origins of phenomenology, Logical Investigations, his most famous and influential work, is presented here in paperback for the first time.

De l'Amitié est un traité philosophique de Cicéron, rédigé en 44 av. J.-C. à la demande insistante de son ami Atticus. Les relations entre les êtres humains et le sens de la vie constituent les principales interrogations de Cicéron dans ce traité. II...

Le présent livre, destiné à des non-spécialistes, constitue une introduction à la fois claire et précise à l'oeuvre décisive de Gottlob Frege. Markus Stepanians y explicite le sens de la combinaison fascinante élaborée par le père de la philosophie...

Although he was born into slavery and endured a permanent physical disability, Epictetus (ca. 50–ca. 130 AD) maintained that all people are free to control their lives and to live in harmony with nature. We will always be happy, he argued, if we...

In his new study, Beyond Atheism, Beyond God, author Philip A. Stahl uses atheism as a rational stepping stone to arrive at an emergent conception of the universe, exposing features that might be described as transcendent.He presents an impersonal...

Elements of Logic is a seminal work on the principles of reasoning and logic, written by Scottish philosopher John Leechman. This volume provides a comprehensive overview of the foundations of logic and has been a standard text for students of philosophy...

Tieftrunks grundlegende Einführung in die Logik bietet eine klare und systematische Darstellung der wichtigsten Konzepte und Methoden. Dabei geht er auf Fragen der Sprachphilosophie, der Semantik, der Argumentationstheorie und der Deduktion ein...

Dieses Buch ist ein grundlegendes Werk der Logik, verfasst von Heinrich Christoph Wilhelm Sigwart. Es behandelt Themen wie Aussagen, Wahrheit und Sätze und ist ein unverzichtbares Werkzeug für alle, die sich mit der Logik und der Philosophie beschäftigen...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

Intensional logic has emerged, since the 1960' s, as a powerful theoretical and practical tool in such diverse disciplines as computer science, artificial intelligence, linguistics, philosophy and even the foundations of...

Perspectives on Time deals with the problem of time from different perspectives such as logic, physics and philosophy. It contains 18 previously unpublished papers, written by philosophers from various European countries, as...

Proof Theory of Modal Logic is devoted to a thorough study of proof systems for modal logics, that is, logics of necessity, possibility, knowledge, belief, time, computations etc. It contains many new technical results and...

This book examines an abstract mathematical theory, placing special emphasis on results applicable to formal logic. If a theory is especially abstract, it may find a natural home within several of the more familiar branches of...

Aristotle's modal syllogistic has been an object of study ever since the time of Theophrastus; but these studies (apart from an intense flowering in the Middle Ages) have been somewhat desultory. Remarkably, in the 1990s...

Constructibility and complexity play central roles in recent research in computer science, mathematics and physics. For example, scientists are investigating the complexity of computer programs, constructive proofs in...

Semantic underspecification is an essential and pervasive property of natural language. This monograph provides a comprehensive survey of the various phenomena in the field of ambiguity and vagueness. The book discusses the...

Quantifiers: Logics, Models and Computation is the first concentrated effort to give a systematic presentation of the main research results on the subject, since the modern concept was formulated in the late '50s and early...

A selection of papers presented at the international conference `Applied Logic: Logic at Work', held in Amsterdam in December 1992. Nowadays, the term `applied logic' has a very wide meaning, as numerous applications of...

Plurality, Conjunction and Events presents a novel theory of plural and conjoined phrases, in an event-based semantic framework. It begins by reviewing options for treating the alternation between `collective' and...