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SUMMARY: At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophical thought was transformed by the discovery of the "new logic", i.e. mathematical or symbolic logic. With this novum organum, philosophers ...

Philosophy has always been marked by its self-conscious concern with the activity of reasoning, and one very important facet of the subject has been the development of methods for the systematic study ...

Using quantitative methods, we investigate the role of logic in analytic philosophy from 1941 to 2010. In particular, a corpus of five journals publishing analytic philosophy is assessed and evaluated ...

Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

In a seminal monograph on the concept of truth, Alfred Tarski stated that his definition of truth “satisfied the usual conditions of methodological correctness”, and in exploring the criteria that a ...

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FRANK PLUMPTON RAMSEY, recognised as a leader of Cambridge thought at the age of sixteen, died at the age of twenty-six. This volume contains his chief writings on logic and philosophy, about half of ...

The present paper is one installment in a lengthy task, the replacement of atomistic interpretations of Wittgenstein's "Tractatus" by a wholistic interpretation on which the world-in-logical-space is ...

There is no statutory requirement that formal logic be adhered to during examination of patent claims. Examiners and patent practitioners are free to use a wide variety of discussion and argument ...