Title:
La Logique.
Logic : a very short introduction / Graham Priest.
Very short introductions ;
Main Entry:
Priest, Graham. author.
Publisher:
Oxford University Press,
Publication Date:
2000.
Publication Place:
Oxford ; New York :
ISBN:
0192893203
9780192893208
Subject:
Logic.
Logique.
Logica.
Series:
Very short introductions ; 29
Contents:
Validity : what follows from what? -- Truth functions : or not? -- Names and quantifiers : is nothing something? -- Descriptions and existence : did the Greeks worship Zeus? -- Self-reference : what is this chapter about? -- Necessity and possibility : what will be must be? -- Conditionals : what's in an if? -- The future and the past : is time real? -- Identity and change : is anything ever the same? -- Vagueness :how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope? -- Probability : the strange case of the missing reference class -- Inverse probability : you can't be indifferent about it -- Decision theory : great expectations -- A little history and some further reading.
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