Title:
Readings on logic / [compiled by] Irving M. Copi [and] James A. Gould.
Main Entry:
Copi, Irving M., editor.
Gould, James A., 1922- editor.
Publisher:
Macmillan,
Publication Date:
[1971, أ1972]
Publication Place:
New York :
Subject:
Logic.
Logique.
Logic.
Edition:
2d ed.
Contents:
pt. 1. The nature of logic -- pt. 2. The syllogism -- pt. 3. The laws of thought -- pt. 4. Existential import -- pt. 5. Symbolic logic -- pt. 6. Logical connectives and truth-tables -- pt. 7. Induction.
Part One. The Nature of Logic -- In Praise of Dialectic / Plato -- The Beginnings of Logic / Aristotle -- Logic and Philosophy / Boethius -- Idols Which Beset Men's Minds / Francis Bacon -- The Formal Laws of Thought / Immanuel Kant -- Logic as Metaphysics / G.W.F. Hegel -- The Science of Evidence / John Stuart Mill -- The Fixation of Belief / Charles Sanders Peirce -- The Application of Intelligence / John Dewey -- Logic as the Essence of Philosophy / Bertrand Russell -- Part Two. The Syllogism -- Is the Syllogism a Petitio Principii? / John Stuart Mill -- A Mere Supersition / F.H. Bradley -- What the Tortoise Said to Achilles / Lewis Carroll -- Aristotle's Logic / Bertrand Russell -- Part Three. The Laws of Thought -- Proving the Laws of Thought / Aristotle -- Generalizations from Experience / John Stuart Mill -- The Negation of the Negation / Friedrich Engels -- Marxist Dialectics and the Principle of Contradiction / Adam Schaff -- The Laws of Logic Are Conventions / Arthur Pap -- Part Four. Existential Import -- The Existent and the Subsistent / W.E. Johnson -- The Boolean Interpretation Is Wrong / Richard B. Angell -- Part Five. Symbolic Logic -- The Method of Mathematics / Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz -- A Logical Calculus / George Boole -- The Importance of Good Notation / Alfred North Whitehead -- A Negative Appraisal by a Mathematician / Henri Poincare -- Part Six. Logical Connectives and Truth-Tables -- The Runabout Inference-Ticket / A.N. Prior -- Roundabout the Runabout Inference-Ticket / J.T. Stevenson -- Truth Tables and Implications / J.A. Faris -- Part Seven. Induction -- An Improved Method of Induction / Francis Bacon -- The Problem of Induction / David Hume -- Induction as Hypothesis / William Whewell -- Criticism of Mill's Methods / F.H. Bradley -- The Doctrine of Necessity Examined / Charles Sanders Pierce -- The Principle of Induction / Bertrand Russell -- Scientific Hypothesis / Henri Poincare -- Some Historical Notes on Induction / John Maynard Keynes -- Analogy / L.S. Stebbing.
Related Records:
Online version: Copi, Irving M. Readings on logic. 2d ed. New York, Macmillan [1971, أ1972] (OCoLC)587294052
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