Routledge Revivals.

Routledge Revivals.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Stebbing, L. Susan
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2017.
Series:Routledge revivals.
Subjects:
Logic.
Logic
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Original Title; Original Copyright; REVISER'S NOTE TO FIFTH EDITION; PUBLISHER'S NOTE; PREFACE; Contents; I THE STUDY OF LOGIC; 1. Reflective Thinking; 2. Argument; 3. Validity and Truth; 4. Form and Logical Forms; 5. Logical Symbolism and Form; II PROPOSITIONS AND THEIR RELATIONS; 1. Propositions and Sentences; 2. Propositions, Mental Attitudes, and Facts; 3. Assertion, Inference, and Implication; 4. The Traditional Analysis of Propositions; 5. Simple, Compound, and General Propositions.
  • 6. The Seven Relations between Propositions and the Figure of Opposition 7. Immediate Inferences; III COMPOUND PROPOSITIONS AND ARGUMENTS; 1. Equivalents and Contradictories; 2. Compound Arguments with One or More Composite Premisses; IV THE TRADITIONAL SYLLOGISM; 1. Defining Characteristics of a Syllogism; 2. Figures and Moods of the Syllogism; 3. Reduction and the Antilogism; 4. Polysyllogisms; 5. Abbreviated Arguments and Epicheirema; V INDIVIDUALS, CLASSES, AND RELATIONS; 1. Individuals and Characteristics; 2. Classes; 3. Relations.
  • 4. Class-inclusion and Class-membership Single-membered Classes; 5. Subclasses and Empty Classes; 6. The Universe of Discourse and the Universal Class; 7. Reconsideration of the Traditional Treatment of Opposition and Immediate Inferences; 8. The Logical Properties of Relations and the Validity of Inferences; VI CLASSIFICATION AND DESCRIPTION; 1. Terminological Confusions; 2. Connotation, Denotation, and Intension; 3. Extension and Connotation; 4. Classification and Division; 5. The Predicables; 6. Definition; 7. Descriptions.
  • VII VARIABLES, PROPOSITIONAL FORMS, AND MATERIAL IMPLICATION 1. Variable Symbols; 2. Propositional Functions and General Propositions; 3. Material Implication and Entailing; 4. Extensional and Intensional Interpretations of Logical Relations; VIII LOGICAL PRINCIPLES AND THE PROOF OF PROPOSITIONS; 1. The Traditional Laws of Thought; 2. Necessary and Factual Propositions; 3. The Necessity of Logical Principles; 4. Persuasion and Proof; 5. Is Syllogistic Proof Circular?; IX METHODOLOGY OF SCIENCE; 1. Inductive Reasoning; 2. Causal Laws; 3. Methods of Experimental Inquiry.
  • 4. The Nature and Importance of Hypothesis 5. Systematization in Science; APPENDIX; References and Exercises arranged in chapter order; Key to the Exercises; INDEX.

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