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Sense and Syllogism: Logic in Life by Aparna Tulpule Pdf
Common sense meets formal syllogism. This book is for you if you have never studied logic, if you believe you have no use for logic, or if you have no idea what logic is. Just a few basic ideas in logic are presented with a lot of examples from current events and literature. If you wish to prepare for competitive exams - MBA, CAT, IAS, PCS, State Civil Services, this book will definitely enhance your logical reasoning skills to help you tackle exam questions and life equally logically. Enjoy finding out how textbook logic pops up everywhere in life. About the Author: Aparna Tulpule is a logic enthusiast, not an expert. She is inviting you to share something she found interesting — the academic subject of logic and the way it pops up everywhere.
An essential tool for our post-truth world: a witty primer on logic—and the dangers of illogical thinking—by a renowned Notre Dame professor Logic is synonymous with reason, judgment, sense, wisdom, and sanity. Being logical is the ability to create concise and reasoned arguments—arguments that build from given premises, using evidence, to a genuine conclusion. But mastering logical thinking also requires studying and understanding illogical thinking, both to sharpen one’s own skills and to protect against incoherent, or deliberately misleading, reasoning. Elegant, pithy, and precise, Being Logical breaks logic down to its essentials through clear analysis, accessible examples, and focused insights. D. Q. McInerney covers the sources of illogical thinking, from naïve optimism to narrow-mindedness, before dissecting the various tactics—red herrings, diversions, and simplistic reasoning—the illogical use in place of effective reasoning. An indispensable guide to using logic to advantage in everyday life, this is a concise, crisply readable book. Written explicitly for the layperson, McInerny’s Being Logical promises to take its place beside Strunk and White’s The Elements of Style as a classic of lucid, invaluable advice. Praise for Being Logical “Highly readable . . . D. Q. McInerny offers an introduction to symbolic logic in plain English, so you can finally be clear on what is deductive reasoning and what is inductive. And you’ll see how deductive arguments are constructed.”—Detroit Free Press “McInerny’s explanatory outline of sound thinking will be eminently beneficial to expository writers, debaters, and public speakers.”—Booklist “Given the shortage of logical thinking, And the fact that mankind is adrift, if not sinking, It is vital that all of us learn to think straight. And this small book by D.Q. McInerny is great. It follows therefore since we so badly need it, Everybody should not only but it, but read it.” —Charles Osgood
A FORTIORI LOGIC: INNOVATIONS, HISTORY AND ASSESSMENTS, by Avi Sion, is a wide-ranging and in-depth study of a fortiori reasoning, comprising a great many new theoretical insights into such argument, a history of its use and discussion from antiquity to the present day, and critical analyses of the main attempts at its elucidation. Its purpose is nothing less than to lay the foundations for a new branch of logic, and greatly develop it; and thus to once and for all dispel the many fallacious ideas circulating regarding the nature of a fortiori reasoning.
Games: Unifying Logic, Language, and Philosophy by Ondrej Majer,Ahti-Veikko Pietarinen,Tero Tulenheimo Pdf
OndrejMajer,Ahti-VeikkoPietarinen,andTeroTulenheimo 1 Games and logic in philosophy Recent years have witnessed a growing interest in the unifying methodo- gies over what have been perceived as pretty disparate logical ‘systems’, or else merely an assortment of formal and mathematical ‘approaches’ to phi- sophical inquiry. This development has largely been fueled by an increasing dissatisfaction to what has earlier been taken to be a straightforward outcome of ‘logical pluralism’ or ‘methodological diversity’. These phrases appear to re ect the everyday chaos of our academic pursuits rather than any genuine attempt to clarify the general principles underlying the miscellaneous ways in which logic appears to us. But the situation is changing. Unity among plurality is emerging in c- temporary studies in logical philosophy and neighbouring disciplines. This is a necessary follow-up to the intensive research into the intricacies of logical systems and methodologies performed over the recent years. The present book suggests one such peculiar but very unrestrained meth- ological perspective over the eld of logic and its applications in mathematics, language or computation: games. An allegory for opposition, cooperation and coordination, games are also concrete objects of formal study.
An Introduction to Logic by Eulalio Baltazar,Albert Mosley Pdf
This book introduces the basic inferential patterns of formal logic as they are embedded in everyday life, information technology, and science. It is designed to make clear the basic topics of classical and modern logic. The aim is to improve the reader's ability to navigate both everyday and science-based interactions.
Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic by Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods Pdf
Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic marks the initial appearance of the multi-volume Handbook of the History of Logic. Additional volumes will be published when ready, rather than in strict chronological order. Soon to appear are The Rise of Modern Logic: From Leibniz to Frege. Also in preparation are Logic From Russell to Gödel, Logic and the Modalities in the Twentieth Century, and The Many-Valued and Non-Monotonic Turn in Logic. Further volumes will follow, including Mediaeval and Renaissance Logic and Logic: A History of its Central. In designing the Handbook of the History of Logic, the Editors have taken the view that the history of logic holds more than an antiquarian interest, and that a knowledge of logic's rich and sophisticated development is, in various respects, relevant to the research programmes of the present day. Ancient logic is no exception. The present volume attests to the distant origins of some of modern logic's most important features, such as can be found in the claim by the authors of the chapter on Aristotle's early logic that, from its infancy, the theory of the syllogism is an example of an intuitionistic, non-monotonic, relevantly paraconsistent logic. Similarly, in addition to its comparative earliness, what is striking about the best of the Megarian and Stoic traditions is their sophistication and originality. Logic is an indispensably important pivot of the Western intellectual tradition. But, as the chapters on Indian and Arabic logic make clear, logic's parentage extends more widely than any direct line from the Greek city states. It is hardly surprising, therefore, that for centuries logic has been an unfetteredly international enterprise, whose research programmes reach to every corner of the learned world. Like its companion volumes, Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic is the result of a design that gives to its distinguished authors as much space as would be needed to produce highly authoritative chapters, rich in detail and interpretative reach. The aim of the Editors is to have placed before the relevant intellectual communities a research tool of indispensable value. Together with the other volumes, Greek, Indian and Arabic Logic, will be essential reading for everyone with a curiosity about logic's long development, especially researchers, graduate and senior undergraduate students in logic in all its forms, argumentation theory, AI and computer science, cognitive psychology and neuroscience, linguistics, forensics, philosophy and the history of philosophy, and the history of ideas.
Logic, Probability, and Presumptions in Legal Reasoning by Scott Brewer Pdf
At least since plato and Aristotle, thinkers have pondered the relationship between philosophical arguments and the "sophistical" arguments offered by the Sophists -- who were the first professional lawyers. Judges wield substantial political power, and the justifications they offer for their decisions are a vital means by which citizens can assess the legitimacy of how that power is exercised. However, to evaluate judicial justifications requires close attention to the method of reasoning behind decisions. This new collection illuminates and explains the political and moral importance in justifying the exercise of judicial power.
Social and Political Thought of American Progressivism by Eldon J. Eisenach Pdf
Through a variety of primary sources--including speeches, poems, magazine articles, and book excerpts--this collection illustrates the origins, ambitions, and political legacy of the American Progressivism movement (1886–1924). A general introduction offers a history of the movement and a brief discussion of recent historiographical debates; headnotes introduce each selection and provide historical and political context.
Handbook of the Logic of Argument and Inference by R.H. Johnson,H.J. Ohlbach,Dov M. Gabbay,John Woods Pdf
The Handbook of the Logic of Argument and Inference is an authoritative reference work in a single volume, designed for the attention of senior undergraduates, graduate students and researchers in all the leading research areas concerned with the logic of practical argument and inference. After an introductory chapter, the role of standard logics is surveyed in two chapters. These chapters can serve as a mini-course for interested readers, in deductive and inductive logic, or as a refresher. Then follow two chapters of criticism; one the internal critique and the other the empirical critique. The first deals with objections to standard logics (as theories of argument and inference) arising from the research programme in philosophical logic. The second canvasses criticisms arising from work in cognitive and experimental psychology. The next five chapters deal with developments in dialogue logic, interrogative logic, informal logic, probability logic and artificial intelligence. The last chapter surveys formal approaches to practical reasoning and anticipates possible future developments. Taken as a whole the Handbook is a single-volume indication of the present state of the logic of argument and inference at its conceptual and theoretical best. Future editions will periodically incorporate significant new developments.
Author : D. Vance Smith Publisher : University of Chicago Press Page : 310 pages File Size : 52,6 Mb Release : 2020-04-03 Category : Literary Criticism ISBN : 9780226641041
People in the Middle Ages had chantry chapels, mortuary rolls, the daily observance of the Office of the Dead, and even purgatory—but they were still unable to talk about death. Their inability wasn’t due to religion, but philosophy: saying someone is dead is nonsense, as the person no longer is. The one thing that can talk about something that is not, as D. Vance Smith shows in this innovative, provocative book, is literature. Covering the emergence of English literature from the Old English to the late medieval periods, Arts of Dying argues that the problem of how to designate death produced a long tradition of literature about dying, which continues in the work of Heidegger, Blanchot, and Gillian Rose. Philosophy’s attempt to designate death’s impossibility is part of a literature that imagines a relationship with death, a literature that intensively and self-reflexively supposes that its very terms might solve the problem of the termination of life. A lyrical and elegiac exploration that combines medieval work on the philosophy of language with contemporary theorizing on death and dying, Arts of Dying is an important contribution to medieval studies, literary criticism, phenomenology, and continental philosophy.
LOGIC is a study that has always been preserved intact from those contemptuous epithets which have been so freely lavished on another, and not quite alien, branch of speculative inquiry. There are many writers at the present day who appear to denote by the term "metaphysics" nothing more than confused reasoning on any abstruse subject; and when they wish to indicate, with as much politeness as possible, that an opponent is vague in his ideas, they say that he is in "the metaphysical stage." But logic meets with respectful treatment at all hands. It is true that "hard logic" is sometimes deprecated, particularly in topics that interest the feelings much; but even then it is deprecated as a powerful enemy, whom it is expedient to conciliate rather than to thrust aside. No doubt this is due to the fact that, however much the utility or fruitfulness of logical investigations may be questioned, their truth up to a certain point is entirely unassailable. If we know positively that all the Ojibbewaya are red-skinned, and if our route of travel takes us through a village inhabited solely by Ojibbeways, we cannot err in our conclusion that the men we shall see in that village will be red-skinned. That is a syllogism in Barbara, and the wit of man has never been able to detect a flaw in it, and never will. And, though we may not care very much to think about syllogisms in Barbara in the abstract, we certainly should be a little ashamed to be convicted of error by such a syllogism in the concrete; as, for instance, if we were to let it be known that we expected to find all the women in the aforesaid village with white faces. To furnish general models of all consistent reasoning, whereby errors such as that just indicated may be avoided, has been the aim of ordinary logic. Such models were first furnished by Aristotle; were further enlarged by the Schoolmen; have been repeated, commented on, and set in new lights by many logicians in every succeeding age, down to Hamilton and Mansel. But, despite the ability, care, and accuracy of the inquirers who have made this subject their study, despite the unassailableness of the syllogistic formula? in themselves, the practical utility of logic has always been a point open to question. The forms of reasoning as exhibited in the different kinds of syllogism are so simple and obvious that no one can feel the excitement of a new discovery in learning them; and, when real argumentative difficulties are met, it is almost always found that uncertainty as to the premises has much more to do with the difficulty than any hidden flaw in the sequence of ideas. Or, even if there is a real argumentative flaw, native common sense generally brings it to light much sooner than the application of any mood and figure of the Syllogism. Not many of us have met with such an instance of logic in practical life as that of the Oxford first-classman, who, on leaving a church where he had been listening with visible impatience to the preacher, exclaimed, "The rascal! he made a fallacy in Baroko." --The Saturday Review, Vol. 53.