Logic : A Very Short Introduction / Priest Graham
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TextLanguage: English Publisher: London Oxford University Press 2017Description: 156ISBN: 9780198811701Subject(s): LogicDDC classification: 160 PRI | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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| BOOK | Bangaluru Dr. B.R. Ambedkar School of Economics | 160 PRI (Browse shelf) | Available | 001567 |
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Preface to Second Edition
Preface to First Edition
1:Validity: what follows from what?
2:Truth funtions - or not?
3:Names and quantifiers: is nothing something?
4:Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus?
5:Self-reference: What is this chapter about?
6:Necessity and possibility: what will be must be?
7:Conditionals: what's in an if?
8:The future and the past: is time real?
9:Identity and change: is anything ever the same?
10:Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope?
11:Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class
12:Inverse probability: you can't be indifferent about it!
13:Decision theory: great expectations
14:Halt! What goes there?
15:Maybe it is true - but you can't prove it!
A little history and some further reading
Glossary
Problems
Problem solutions
Bibliography
General index
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