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Entailment, Vol. II - The Logic of Relevance and Necessity (Paperback)
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Entailment, Vol. II - The Logic of Relevance and Necessity (Paperback)
Series: Princeton Legacy Library
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In spite of a powerful tradition, more than two thousand years old,
that in a valid argument the premises must be relevant to the
conclusion, twentieth-century logicians neglected the concept of
relevance until the publication of Volume I of this monumental
work. Since that time relevance logic has achieved an important
place in the field of philosophy: Volume II of Entailment brings to
a conclusion a powerful and authoritative presentation of the
subject by most of the top people working in the area. Originally
the aim of Volume II was simply to cover certain topics not treated
in the first volume--quantification, for example--or to extend the
coverage of certain topics, such as semantics. However, because of
the technical progress that has occurred since the publication of
the first volume, Volume II now includes other material. The book
contains the work of Alasdair Urquhart, who has shown that the
principal sentential systems of relevance logic are undecidable,
and of Kit Fine, who has demonstrated that, although the
first-order systems are incomplete with respect to the conjectured
constant domain semantics, they are still complete with respect to
a semantics based on "arbitrary objects." Also presented is
important work by the other contributing authors, who are Daniel
Cohen, Steven Giambrone, Dorothy L. Grover, Anil Gupta, Glen
Helman, Errol P. Martin, Michael A. McRobbie, and Stuart Shapiro.
Robert G. Wolf's bibliography of 3000 items is a valuable addition
to the volume. Originally published in 1992. The Princeton Legacy
Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make
available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished
backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the
original texts of these important books while presenting them in
durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton
Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly
heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton
University Press since its founding in 1905.
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