Thinking about logic: classic essays

by Aikin, Scott F. Cahn, Steven M. Talisse, Robert B.

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Full title :Thinking about logic : classic essays / edited by Steven M. Cahn, Robert B. Talisse. Scott F. Aikin.

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Publication Date:©2011.

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Publisher(s):Westview Press
Place of Publication:Boulder, CO
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2011.

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Description:vii, 215 pages ; : 21 cm

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ISBN:9780813344690, 0813344697
oclc:ocn495781992
LC Classification:BC6
Dewey Decimal:160

I. Logic and knowledge. 1. What the tortoise said to Achilles / Lewis Carroll ; 2. What Achilles said to the tortoise / W.J. Rees ; 3. What Achilles should have said to the tortoise / J.F. Thomson -- II. Logic and definition. 4. The runabout inference-ticket / A.N. Prior ; 5. Roundabout the runabout inference-ticket / J.T. Stevenson ; 6. Tonk, plonk and pink / Nuel D. Belnap -- III. Logic and inference. 7. A counterexample to Modus Ponens / Vann McGee ; 8. Not a counterexample to Modus Ponens / E.J. Lowe ; 9. Assumptions and the supposed counterexamples to Modus Ponens / D.E. Over -- IV. Logic and freedom. 10. 'It was to be' / Gilbert Ryle ; 11. Fatalism / Richard Taylor ; 12. Time, truth, and ability / Richard Taylor and Steven M. Cahn -- V. Logic and reality. 13. The justification of Deduction / Susan Haack ; 14. The problem of counterfactual conditionals / Nelson Goodman ; 15. On what there is / Willard V. Quine.