Logic In Reality

Author : JOSEPH BRENNER
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2008-05-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402083754

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Logic in Reality by JOSEPH BRENNER Pdf

This book is both dif?cult and rewarding, affording a new perspective on logic and reality, basically seen in terms of change and stability, being and becoming. Most importantly it exemplifies a mode of doing philosophy of science that seems a welcome departure from the traditional focus on purely analytic arguments. The author approaches ontology, metaphysics, and logic as having offered a number of ways of constructing the description of reality, and aims at deepening their relationships in a new way. Going beyond the mere abstract and formal aspects of logical analysis, he offers a new architecture of logic that sees it as applied not only to the “reasoning processes” belonging to the first disciplinary group – ontology – but also directly concerned with en- ties, events, and phenomena studied by the second one – metaphysics. It is the task of the book to elaborate such a constructive logic, both by offering a lo- cal view of the structure of the reality in general and by proffering a wealth of models able to encompass its implications for science. In turning from the merely formal to the constructive account of logic Brenner overcomes the limitation of logic to linguistic concepts so that it can be not only a logic “of” reality but also “in” that reality which is constitutively characterized by a number of fundamental dualities (observer and observed, self and not-self, internal and external, etc.

Author : Majda Trobok,Nenad Miščević,Berislav Žarnić
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2011-11-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400723900

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Between Logic and Reality by Majda Trobok,Nenad Miščević,Berislav Žarnić Pdf

Is reality logical and is logic real? What is the origin of logical intuitions? What is the role of logical structures in the operations of an intelligent mind and in communication? Is the function of logical structure regulative or constitutive or both in concept formation? This volume provides analyses of the logic-reality relationship from different approaches and perspectives. The point of convergence lies in the exploration of the connections between reality – social, natural or ideal – and logical structures employed in describing or discovering it. Moreover, the book connects logical theory with more concrete issues of rationality, normativity and understanding, thus pointing to a wide range of potential applications. The papers collected in this volume address cutting-edge topics in contemporary discussions amongst specialists. Some essays focus on the role of indispensability considerations in the justification of logical competence, and the wide range of challenges within the philosophy of mathematics. Others present advances in dynamic logical analysis such as extension of game semantics to non-logical part of vocabulary and development of models of contractive speech act.

Author : Bimal Krishna Matilal
Publisher : Motilal Banarsidass
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9788120800083

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Logic, Language and Reality by Bimal Krishna Matilal Pdf

The word 'philosophy' as well as the conjuring expression 'Indian philosophy' has meant different things to different people-endeavours and activities, old and new, grave and frivolous, edifying and banal, esoteric and exoteric. In this book, the author has chosen deliberately a very dominant trend of the classical (Sanskrit) philosophical literature as his subject of study. The age of the material used here demands both philological scholarship and philosophical amplification. Classical pramanasastras usually deal with the theory of knowledge, the nature of inference and language, and the related questions of ontology and semantics. Several important concepts and theories have been singled out for critical analysis and clarification in modern terms so that the results may be intelligible to modern students of both Sanskrit and philosophy. It is hoped that such an attempt will kindle the enthusiasm of young scholars in the field and inspire them to proceed in this comparatively new area of research and explore further and more interesting possibilities.

Author : B. Jack Copeland,Jack Copeland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 570 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Computers
ISBN : UOM:39015041091219

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Logic and Reality by B. Jack Copeland,Jack Copeland Pdf

Logic and Reality is a collection of essays by philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, and computer scientists, celebrating the work of the late distinguished philosopher Arthur Prior on the eightieth anniversary of his birth. Topics range from philosophical discussions of the nature of time and of the nature of logic itself, to descriptions of computer systems that can reason and take account of the fact that they exist in a temporal world.

Author : Louis O. Kattsoff
Publisher : Springer
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401192828

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Logic and the Nature of Reality by Louis O. Kattsoff Pdf

This book is not merely about metaphysics; it is an essay in metaphysics. Furthermore, it is written in the firm conviction that metaphysics is possible and meaningful metaphysical statements can and should be made. However, I felt it necessary to approach the perennial problems of metaphysics through the avenues of linguistic analysis. I have tried not only to infiltrate the position of the linguists but to show that a fifth column already existed there. Yet the objections to metaphysics needed to be met or at least some indication of how they could be met had to be shown. It is never enough to demonstrate that objections are un founded - some positive indications of a possible metaphysics had to be offered. This book, as a consequence, tries also to draw at least in broad outline, a metaphysical position that seems to me to be well-founded. In the present state of philoso phy in the United States especially, this is sufficient reason for publishing another book in philosophy. I want to express my appreciation to a number of people. To my colleagues at North Carolina I am grateful for stimulating criticisms that often helped me see my way through to solutions. To Professors B. Blanshard (Yale University), and Ledger Wood (Princeton University), I am grateful for reading the manuscript.

Author : Heather Dyke
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2009-06-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781135246914

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From Truth to Reality by Heather Dyke Pdf

Questions about truth and questions about reality are intimately connected. One can ask whether numbers exist by asking "Are there numbers?" But one can also ask what arguably amounts to the same question by asking "Is the sentence 'There are numbers' true?" Such semantic ascent implies that reality can be investigated by investigating our true sentences. This line of thought was dominant in twentieth century philosophy, but is now beginning to be called into question. In From Truth to Reality, Heather Dyke brings together some of the foremost metaphysicians to examine approaches to truth, reality, and the connections between the two. This collection features new and previously unpublished material by JC Beall, Mark Colyvan, Michael Devitt, John Heil, Frank Jackson, Fred Kroon, D. H. Mellor, Luca Moretti, Alan Musgrave, Robert Nola, J. J. C. Smart, Paul Snowdon, and Daniel Stoljar.

Author : Ben Goertzel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013-04-17
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9781475721973

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Chaotic Logic by Ben Goertzel Pdf

This book summarizes a network of interrelated ideas which I have developed, off and on, over the past eight or ten years. The underlying theme is the psychological interplay of order and chaos. Or, to put it another way, the interplay of deduction and induction. I will try to explain the relationship between logical, orderly, conscious, rule-following reason and fluid, self organizing, habit-governed, unconscious, chaos-infused intuition. My previous two books, The Structure of Intelligence and The Evolving Mind, briefly touched on this relationship. But these books were primarily concerned with other matters: SI with constructing a formal language for discussing mentality and its mechanization, and EM with exploring the role of evolution in thought. They danced around the edges of the order/chaos problem, without ever fully entering into it. My goal in writing this book was to go directly to the core of mental process, "where angels fear to tread" -- to tackle all the sticky issues which it is considered prudent to avoid: the nature of consciousness, the relation between mind and reality, the justification of belief systems, the connection between creativity and mental illness,.... All of these issues are dealt with here in a straightforward and unified way, using a combination of concepts from my previous work with ideas from chaos theory and complex systems science.

Author : G. Scarre
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789400925793

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Logic and Reality in the Philosophy of John Stuart Mill by G. Scarre Pdf

'Nobody reads Mill today,' wrote a reviewer in Time magazine a few years ago. ! One could scarcely praise Mr Melvin Maddocks, who penned that remark, for his awareness of the present state of Mill studies, for of all nineteenth century philosophers who wrote in English, it is 1. S. Mill who remains the most read today. Yet it would not be so far from the truth to say that very few people pay much serious attention nowadays to Mill's writings about logic and metaphysics (as distinct from those on ethical and social issues), despite the fact that Mill put enormous effort into their composition and through them exerted a considerable influen ce on the course of European philosophy for the rest of his century. But the only sections of A System of Logic (1843) and An Examination of Sir William Hamilton's Philosophy (1865) to which much reference is now made comprise only a small proportion of those very large books, and the prevailing assumption is that Mill's theories about logical and meta physical questions are, with few exceptions, of merely antiquarian in terest. Bertrand Russell once said that Mill's misfortune was to be born at the wrong time (Russell (1951), p. 2). It can certainly appear that Mill chose an inauspicious time to attempt a major work on logic.

Author : Gustav Bergmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 355 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : OCLC:219990542

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Logic and Reality by Gustav Bergmann Pdf

Author : Robert M. Wallace
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 878 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2005-04-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0521844843

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Hegel's Philosophy of Reality, Freedom, and God by Robert M. Wallace Pdf

Showing the relevance of Hegel's arguments, this book discusses both original texts and their interpretations.

Author : Penelope Rush
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2014-10-16
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781107039643

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The Metaphysics of Logic by Penelope Rush Pdf

This wide-ranging collection of essays explores the nature of logic and the key issues and debates in the metaphysics of logic.

Author : Gustav Bergmann
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : Logic
ISBN : UOM:39015001780389

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Logic and Reality by Gustav Bergmann Pdf

Author : Louis Osgood Kattsoff
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Logic
ISBN : LCCN:57002029

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Logic and the Nature of Reality by Louis Osgood Kattsoff Pdf

Author : John Woods
Publisher : Springer
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2018-02-23
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319726588

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Truth in Fiction by John Woods Pdf

This monograph examines truth in fiction by applying the techniques of a naturalized logic of human cognitive practices. The author structures his project around two focal questions. What would it take to write a book about truth in literary discourse with reasonable promise of getting it right? What would it take to write a book about truth in fiction as true to the facts of lived literary experience as objectivity allows? It is argued that the most semantically distinctive feature of the sentences of fiction is that they areunambiguously true and false together. It is true that Sherlock Holmes lived at 221B Baker Street and also concurrently false that he did. A second distinctive feature of fiction is that the reader at large knows of this inconsistency and isn’t in the least cognitively molested by it. Why, it is asked, would this be so? What would explain it? Two answers are developed. According to the no-contradiction thesis, the semantically tangled sentences of fiction are indeed logically inconsistent but not logically contradictory. According to the no-bother thesis, if the inconsistencies of fiction were contradictory, a properly contrived logic for the rational management of inconsistency would explain why readers at large are not thrown off cognitive stride by their embrace of those contradictions. As developed here, the account of fiction suggests the presence of an underlying three - or four-valued dialethic logic. The author shows this to be a mistaken impression. There are only two truth-values in his logic of fiction. The naturalized logic of Truth in Fiction jettisons some of the standard assumptions and analytical tools of contemporary philosophy, chiefly because the neurotypical linguistic and cognitive behaviour of humanity at large is at variance with them. Using the resources of a causal response epistemology in tandem with the naturalized logic, the theory produced here is data-driven, empirically sensitive, and open to a circumspect collaboration with the empirical sciences of language and cognition.

Author : Alfred Jules Ayer
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 175 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-18
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780486113098

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Language, Truth and Logic by Alfred Jules Ayer Pdf

"A delightful book … I should like to have written it myself." — Bertrand Russell First published in 1936, this first full-length presentation in English of the Logical Positivism of Carnap, Neurath, and others has gone through many printings to become a classic of thought and communication. It not only surveys one of the most important areas of modern thought; it also shows the confusion that arises from imperfect understanding of the uses of language. A first-rate antidote for fuzzy thought and muddled writing, this remarkable book has helped philosophers, writers, speakers, teachers, students, and general readers alike. Mr. Ayers sets up specific tests by which you can easily evaluate statements of ideas. You will also learn how to distinguish ideas that cannot be verified by experience — those expressing religious, moral, or aesthetic experience, those expounding theological or metaphysical doctrine, and those dealing with a priori truth. The basic thesis of this work is that philosophy should not squander its energies upon the unknowable, but should perform its proper function in criticism and analysis.