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Book 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
ISBN-13
9781844656806
Language
English
Binding
Paper Back
Publisher
Acumen Publishing
Publishing Date
2014-08-17
Total Pages
320
Logic and How it Gets that Way (Acumen Research Editions)
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