Title Statements
- Full title :Logic from a Rhetorical Point of View.
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2011.
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):De Gruyter Mouton
- Place of Publication:Berlin
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2011.
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (332 pages).
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:311013683X, 9783110136838, 9783110886627, 3110886626
- DOI:10.1515/9783110886627
- oclc:ocn952772351
- LC Classification:BC177.M36 1994eb
- Dewey Decimal:160
Table of Contents
""Preface""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Chapter One: On the Rhetorical Point of View""; ""1. Why rhetoric declined, and what remained of it""; ""2. Descartes, Leibniz and Pascal facing a crisis in logic""; ""Chapter Two: Mind-Philosophical Logic as a Theory of Intelligence""; ""1. A terminological introduction""; ""2. A case study and methodological comments""; ""3. Conceptual potential and conceptual engineering""; ""Chapter Three: Formalized versus Intuitive Arguments. The Historical Background""; ""1. On how geometry and algebra influenced logic""
""2. The Renaissance reformism and intuitionism in logic""""3. Leibniz on the mechanization of arguments""; ""Chapter Four: Towards the Logic of General Names""; ""1. From syllogistic to the calculus of classes""; ""2. The existential import of general names""; ""3. What names stand for: an exercise in Plato""; ""Chapter Five: The Truth-Functional Calculus and the Ordinary Use of Connectives""; ""1. The functional approach to logic""; ""2. The truth-functional analysis of denial and conjunction""; ""3. The truth-functional analysis of disjunction""
""4. The truth-functional analysis of conditionals""""Chapter Six: The Predicate Calculu…
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