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Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
by Ludwig Wittgenstein  Publisher Comments In this 1921 opus, Wittgenstein defined the object of philosophy as the logical clarification of thoughts and proposed the solution to most philosophic problems by means of a critical method of linguistic analysis. Beginning with the principles of...
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Speech Acts: An Essay in the Philosophy of Language
by John R Searle Publisher Comments Written in an outstandingly clear and lively style, it provokes its readers to rethink issues they may have regarded as long since settled....
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Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic
by Anita Burd Feferman Publisher Comments Alfred Tarski, one of the greatest logicians of all time, is widely thought of as 'the man who defined truth'. His mathematical work on the concepts of truth and logical consequence are cornerstones of modern logic, influencing developments in philosophy,...
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A Brief History of the Paradox: Philosophy and the Labyrinths of the Mind
by Roy A. Sorensen Publisher Comments Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible...
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Crimes Against Logic
by Jamie Whyte Publisher Comments A witty assault on lame rhetoric, specious logic, and official BS Here's a fast-paced, ruthlessly funny romp through the mulligan stew of illogic, unreason, and just plain drivel served up daily in the media by pundits, psychics, ad agencies, New...
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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition
by W. V. Quine Review Professor Quine's challenging and original views are here for the first time presented as a unity. The chief merit of the book is the heart-searching from which it arose and to which it will give rise. In vigour, conciseness, and clarity, it is...
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The Philosophy of Symbolic Forms: The Phenomenology of Knowledge, Volume 3
by Ernst Cassirer Synopsis The Symbolic Forms has long been considered by many who knew it in the original German as the greatest of Ernst Cassirer's works. Into it he poured all the resources of his vast learning about language and myth, religion, art and science-the various...
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501 Challenging Logic and Reasoning Problems
by Not Available (na) Publisher Comments Nearly everyone must at some time face a standardized test. This guide eases the process by helping readers improve reasoning, critical thinking, judgment, and decision-making skills, and prepare for exams. Like most standardized tests, it features 501...
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The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking
by Publisher Comments Lively, comprehensive, and contemporary, The Voice of Reason: Fundamentals of Critical Thinking covers three principal areas: thought and language, systematic reasoning, and modes of proof. It employs highly accessible explanations and a multitude of...
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Logical Properties: Identity, Existence, Predication, Necessity, Truth
by Colin Mcginn Publisher Comments Identity, existence, predication, necessity, and truth are vital concepts at the center of philosophy. Yet Colin McGinn believes that orthodox views of these topics are misguided in important ways. Philosophers and logicians have often distorted the...
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Demonstration and Scientific Knowledge in William of Ockham: A Translation of Summa Logicae III-II: de Syllogismo Demonstrativo, and Selections from t
by John Lee Longeway Synopsis This book makes available for the first time an English translation of William of Ockham's work on Aristotle's Posterior Analytics, which contains his theory of scientific demonstration and philosophy of science. John Lee Longeway also includes an...
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The Uses of Argument
by Stephen E Toulmin Publisher Comments Has been an enduring source of inspiration and discussion for more than forty years....
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Informal Logic : a Handbook for Critical Argumentation (89 Edition)
by Douglas N. Walton Publisher Comments This is an introductory guidebook to the basic principles of how to construct good arguments and how to criticeze bad ones....
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Profile of Mathematical Logic (04 Edition)
by Howard Delong Publisher Comments Readers need only an acquaintance with high school–level math to appreciate this text, which explores the historical reasons for the formation of Aristotelian logic, the rise of mathematical logic, the nature of the formal axiomatic method and its...
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Introducing Wittgenstein (Introducing)
by John Heaton Synopsis In Introducing Wittgenstein we meet a strange man, a rigorous logician who prized poetry above philosophy, who inherited a fortune and gave it away, who sought death in the trenches of the First World War, a great teacher who advised his students to give...
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Axiomatic Set Theory
by Patrick Suppes Publisher Comments In one of the finest treatments for upper undergraduate and graduate level students, Professor Suppes presents axiomatic set theory: the basic paradoxes and history of set theory, and advanced topics such as relations and functions, equipollence, finite...
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Philosophy of Logics (78 Edition)
by Susan Haack Publisher Comments The first systematic exposition of all the central topics in the philosophy of logic, Susan Haack's book has established an international reputation (translated into five languages) for its accessibility, clarity, conciseness, orderliness, and range as...
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Introduction To Non-classical Logic (01 Edition)
by Graham Priest Publisher Comments This is the first introductory textbook on non-classical propositional logics....
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Incompleteness: The Proof and Paradox of Kurt Godel
by Rebecca Goldstein Publisher Comments A gem....An unforgettable account of one of the great moments in the history of human thought.--Steven Pinker A masterly introduction to the life and thought of the man who transformed our conception of math forever. Kurt Godel is considered the greatest...
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Fallacies and Pitfalls of Language
by S Morris Engel Publisher Comments Witty, thought-provoking exploration of government newspeak, exaggerated advertising claims, propaganda and other misuses of language — and how to combat them....
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