Studies in the history of logic / Nicholas Rescher.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rescher, Nicholas.

Contributor:

Rescher, Nicholas, editor.

Series:

Nicholas Rescher collected papers ; v. 10

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic--History.

Logic.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (197 p.)

Place of Publication:

Frankfurt : Ontos Verlag, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher's interest, others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value. Throughout, challenges of the work itself more than compensated the author's efforts. Logic has always been of crucially important concern to philosophers. Rescher's own involvement with the history of logic goes back to his work on Leibniz in the 1950's (represented by Chapter 8 of the present book). There

Contents:

Front matter

Table of Contents

PREFACE

Chapter 1: ON ARISTOTLE'S APODEICTIC SYLLOGISMS

Chapter 2: AL-KINDĪ'S SKETCH OF ARISTOTLE'S ORGANON

Chapter 3: A NINTH-CENTURY ARABIC LOGICIAN ON: IS EXISTENCE A PREDICATE?

Chapter 4: AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OF "CONDITIONAL" PROPOSITIONS

Chapter 5: AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OF QUESTIONS

Chapter 6: THE ARABIC THEORY OF TEMPORAL MODAL SYLLOGISTIC

Chapter 7: CHOICE WITHOUT PREFERENCE: THE PROBLEM OF "BURIDAN'S ASS"

Chapter 8: LEIBNIZ'S INTERPRETATION OF HIS LOGICAL CALCULI

Chapter 9: RUSSELL AND MODAL LOGIC

Chapter 10: DEFAULT REASONING

Name Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9783110326444

3110326442

OCLC:

1013941374