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In the sixth Logical Investigation, Husserl defines meaning, objectivity, and knowledge by appealing to "syntheses of fulfilment": each act of conscious­ ness has a meaning-intention whereby it anticipates a range of fulfilling...

This is not quite the book I originally intended to write. Since I first felt that linguistic application of categorial grammar merited a system­ atic presentation, I have been subject to (what seemed to be) a series of...

Part I of this book presents a theory of modal metaphysics in the possible-worlds tradition. `Worlds' themselves are understood as structured sets of properties; this `Ersatzist' view is defended against its most vigorous...

An outstanding feature of this book is the broad range of the contributors, drawn from Europe, the Middle East and North America, testifying both to the range of Professor Agassi's interests and the geographical spread of...

Issues surrounding the status and nature of `nonexistent objects' constitute one of philosophy's oldest and densest thickets. In this book Perszyk takes his readers surefootedly through this thicket, informed both ...

Preface This book is about semantics and logic. More specifically, it is about the semantics and logic of natural language; and, even more specifically than that, it is about a particular way of dealing with those subjects,...

This volume contains a selection of papers presented at a Seminar on Intensional Logic held at the University of Amsterdam during the period September 1990-May 1991. Modal logic, either as a topic or as a tool, is common to...

beschäftigt. 6 Andere Teile seines Werkes - neben Ingardens Anthropologie und allgemeiner Wertphilosophie insbesondere seine Arbeiten zur Erkenntnistheorie sowie zur Sprach­ 7 philosophie und Logik - sind noch relativ wenig...

Reference to Abstract Objects in Discourse presents a novel framework and analysis of the ways we refer to abstract objects in natural language discourse. The book begins with a typology of abstract objects and related...

Philosophy flourished in Australia after the war. There was spectacular growth in both the number of departments and the number of philosophers. On top of this philosophy spread beyond the philosophy departments. Serious...

Contemporaryphilosophyseems a great swirling almost chaos. Every situation must seem so at the time, probably because philosophy itself resists structura­ tion and because personal and political factors within as well as...

In the great libraries of Europe and the United States, hidden in fading manuscripts on forgotten shelves, lie the works of medieval Hebrew logic. From the end of the twelfth century through the Renaissance, Jews wrote and...

Thomas A. Fay Heidegger and the Formalization of Thought 1 Dagfinn F011esdal The Justification of Logic and Mathematics in Husserl's Phenomenology 25 Guillermo E. Rosado Haddock On Husserl's Distinction between State of Affairs...

All except three of the papers in this volume were presented at the colloquium on "L'Ontologie formelle aujourd'hui", Geneva, 3-5 June 1988. The three exceptions, the papers by David Armstrong, Uwe Meixner and Wolfgang Lenzen,...

Rudolf Carnap was born on May 18, 1891, and Hans Reichenbach on September 26 in the same year. They are two of the greatest philosophers of this century, and they are eminent representatives of what is perhaps the most powerful...

This collection of essays is dedicated to 'Joe' Karel Lambert. The contributors are all personally affected to Joe in some way or other, but they are definitely not the only ones. Whatever excuses there are - there are some -,...

The subject of Time has a wide intellectual appeal across different dis­ ciplines. This has shown in the variety of reactions received from readers of the first edition of the present Book. Many have reacted to issues raised in...

The idea to produce the current volume was conceived by Jiirgen Mittelstrass and Robert E. Butts in 1978. Idealist philosophers are wrong about one thing: the temporal gap separating idea and reality can be very long indeed -...

"Intuition" has perhaps been the least understood and the most abused term in philosophy. It is often the term used when one has no plausible explanation for the source of a given belief or opinion. According to some sceptics,...

The greatest myth of modern times is the suggestion that capitalism and corporations do better with less government. The global economic crisis has certainly put paid to this idea. But the massive emergency state bailouts and interventions put in place...

This book seeks the unity in this diversity by asking what properties a structure should have to qualify it to be a logic. It does not provide a complete atlas of the logic manifold but prepounds a principle which, though it makes neither the crooked...

Der geborene Österreicher Ludwig von Bertalanffy (1901-1972) gilt als der Begründer der Allgemeinen Systemtheorie. Die Querschnittswissenschaft Systemtheorie hat damit ihre Grundlage bekommen. Mark Davidson, Schriftsteller, Journalist, ehemaliger...

Vor dem Hintergrund der komplexen sozialen, wirtschaftlichen, politischen und wissenschaftlich-technischen Herausforderungen der Zukunft ist dieses Buch konzipiert worden. Es zeigt auf der Basis der neuesten Erkenntnisse der Chaostheorie und...

In die Logik einzuleiten heisst seit der Renaissance, eine Reihe von Fragestellungen zu beantworten, wie z.B.: Was ist die Natur der Logik? Was ihr Gegenstand? Was ihr Zweck? Wie ihre Einteilung? Dieses Themenfeld gehört zum traditionellen Lehrgut der...

This is a new edition of Gärdenfors' classic text, presented to the community with a Foreword by David Makinson and an appendix containing a paper "Relations between the logic of theory change and nonmonotonic logic" by the author and David Makinson.The...

Hugh MacColl (1837-1909) fut un mathématicien et logicien qui passa les premières années de sa vie en Écosse. Après quelques années de travail en différents lieux de Grande-Bretagne, il s'installa à Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), où il développa la majeure...

Hugh MacColl (1837-1909) was a mathematician and logician who was born, raised and educated in Scotland and after a few years working in different areas of Great Britain moved to Boulogne-sur-Mer (France), where he developed the greater part of his work...

Modal logic is one of the most widely applied logical formalisms. Systems ofmodal logic are being used in many disciplines, ranging from artificialintelligence, computer science, mathematics, formal grammar and semantics tophilosophy. This volume...

Originating as an attempt to provide solid logical foundations for fuzzy set theory, and motivated also by philosophical and computational problems of vagueness and imprecision, Mathematical Fuzzy Logic (MFL) has become a significant subfield of...

Originating as an attempt to provide solid logical foundations for fuzzy set theory, and motivated also by philosophical and computational problems of vagueness and imprecision, Mathematical Fuzzy Logic (MFL) has become a significant subfield of...

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In this classic work, John Locke provides a comprehensive guide to logic and the art of reasoning. Written in clear and concise language, this book is an essential resource for anyone interested in the foundations of modern philosophy.This work has been...

Dieses Buch beschäftigt sich mit den Grundlagen der Logik und ist ein wichtiges Werk des deutschen Philosophen Jakob Friedrich Fries. Es gilt als Standardwerk der Logik und hat einen wichtigen Einfluss auf die modernen Denkstrukturen. Dieses Buch ist...

Dieses Buch ist ein Lehrbuch für historische Logik, das für Studenten oder Dozenten gedacht ist. Es umfasst eine Einführung in die Grundlagen der historischen Logik, einschließlich Methodik, Quellen und Analyse von Geschichtsschreibungen. Es ist eine...

A classic guide to logical reasoning in a classroom setting, offering clear guidance on how to construct and evaluate arguments. This essential text will benefit students and teachers alike.This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally...

In diesem Buch legt Albrecht Krause seine philosophischen Überlegungen zur formalen Logik des Gefühls dar. Ein interessantes Werk für alle, die sich für die Schnittstelle von Philosophie und Psychologie interessieren.This work has been selected by...

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...

In den Bernauer Forschungsmanuskripten nimmt Husserl seine frühere, in Husserliana Band X dokumentierte Phänomenologie der formalen Struktur des inneren Zeitbewusstseins neu auf. Dabei stehen die Fragen, welche die Anwendung...

Der vorliegende Band enthält Husserls einzige weitgehend vollständig erhaltene Vorlesung aus seiner Hallenser Zeit, die er 1896 unter dem Titel `Logik' gehalten und im Hinblick auf eine Veröffentlichung teilweise bearbeitet hat...

We are happy to present the first volume of the Handbook of Defeasible Reasoning and Uncertainty Management Systems. Uncertainty pervades the real world and must therefore be addressed by every system that attempts to represent...

This book is a systematic history of one of the oldest problems in the philosophy of space and time: How is the change from one state to its opposite to be described? To my knowledge it is the first comprehensive book providing...