Logic and How it Gets That Way (Hardcover, New)

"The questions this book deals with deserve close investigation. The book offers a rare opportunity to think about the limitations of our standard logic and semantic analysis from an overall perspective." - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews In this challenging and provocative book, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the philosophical significance of certain formal properties of specific types of logical constructions. Exposing some of the key misconceptions about formal symbolic logic and its relation to thought, language and the world, Jacquette clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the most fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic. Having presented difficulties for conventional ways of thinking about truth functionality, the metaphysics of reference and predication, the role of a concept of truth in a theory of meaning, among others, Jacquette proceeds to reshape the network of ideas about traditional logic that philosophy has acquired along with modern logic itself. In so doing Jacquette is able to offer a new perspective on a number of existing problems in logic and philosophy of logic.

General

Imprint:	Acumen Publishing Ltd
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	December 2008
First published:	2010
Authors:	Dale Jacquette
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 33mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	288
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-84465-142-9
Categories:	Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic Promotions
LSN:	1-84465-142-8
Barcode:	9781844651429

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