Logic and how it gets that way / Dale Jacquette.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jacquette, Dale.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic, Modern.

Semantics.

Paradox.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiv, 306 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Place of Publication:

Durham : Acumen, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

In this challenging and provocative analysis, 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.

Contents:

Logical form

Monkey raisins

The secret life of truth-functions

Reference and identity

Intensional versus extensional logic and semantics

Truth

Logical and semantic paradoxes

Conclusion: moral lessons of logic.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 02 Oct 2015).

Includes bibliographical references (p. 289-296) and index.

Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.

ISBN:

1-317-54653-9

1-315-72964-4

1-317-54654-7

1-280-11986-1

9786613523839

1-84465-414-1

9781315729640

OCLC:

891447359