Logic: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
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9780191848513
Print ISBN:
9780198811701
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Oxford University Press
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Logic: A Very Short Introduction (2nd edn)
Graham Priest
Graham Priest
Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center
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Published:
26 October 2017
Online ISBN:
9780191848513
Print ISBN:
9780198811701
Publisher:
Oxford University Press
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Priest, Graham, Logic: A Very Short Introduction, 2nd edn, Very Short Introductions (Oxford , 2017; online edn, Oxford Academic, 26 Oct. 2017), https://doi.org/10.1093/actrade/9780198811701.001.0001, accessed 17 Apr. 2024.
Abstract
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. Logic: A Very Short Introduction shows how wrong this conception is. It explores the philosophical roots of the subject, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy. It also covers the subjects of algorithms and axioms, and proofs in mathematics.
Keywords:
change, decision theory, descriptions, existence of God, necessity, slippery slope, time, vagueness, will, logic
Series
Very Short Introductions
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Very Short Introductions
Contents
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Front Matter
- 1 Validity: what follows from what?
- 2 Truth functions—or not?
- 3 Names and quantifiers: is nothing something?
- 4 Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus?
- 5 Self-reference: what is this chapter about?
- 6 Necessity and possibility: what will be must be?
- 7 Conditionals: what’s in an if?
- 8 The future and the past: is time real?
- 9 Identity and change: is anything ever the same?
- 10 Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope?
- 11 Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class
- 12 Inverse probability: you can’t be indifferent about it!
- 13 Decision theory: great expectations
- 14 Halt! What goes there?
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15
Maybe it is true—but you can’t prove it!
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End Matter
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