Extensionalism: The Revolution in Logic
This vivid and thought-provoking book by the Israeli logician Nimrod Bar-Am impels one to rethink the place of logic in Western thought. It shows that the history of logic from Aristotle to Tarski is the history of the gradual undoing of the classic conflation of logic and empirical science. It sets...
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| 格式: | 电子 电子书 |
| 语言: | English |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2008.
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| 版: | 1st ed. 2008. |
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| 在线阅读: | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8168-2 |
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书本目录:
- Preliminary Notes
- Outline of Preliminary Notes
- Setting the Scene: Some Notes on the Pre-history of Logic
- The Mother of All Conflations: Parmenides' Proof
- Early Disagreements Concerning the Power of Proofs: The Uses and Misuses of Dialogues
- The Sophists' Challenge
- Aristotle's Logic: The Rise of Essentialism
- The Beginning is the Term
- Chimera in the Dusk: Essentialism
- Semantics is not Ontology
- The Mother of All Matrices, or, How Terms Spawn Definitions and Syllogisms
- The Conflation of the Source with the True, Good and Beautiful (Source)
- Induction as Spell-Casting
- The Birth of Induction from Sea Foam
- Taxonomy of Reality by Syllogism
- Essentialism Besieged
- Ad Hominem Logic: Logic between Aristotle and Boole
- The Neglect of Judgment
- Leibniz as Aristotle and Boole Conflated
- Why Transcendental Logic is no Logic at All
- The Fall of Essentialism
- Extensionalism as Exorcism
- Mathematical Logic: An Oxymoron
- The Last Step.