Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability. Explaining formal logic in simple, non-technical terms, this edition includes new sections on mathematical algorithms, axioms, and proofs.
Graham Priest shows that formal logic is a powerful, exciting part of modern philosophy -- a tool for thinking about everything from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability. Explaining formal logic in simple, non-technical terms, this edition includes new sections on mathematical algorithms, axioms, and proofs.
Graham Priest is Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at the CUNY Graduate Center , as well as a regular visitor at the University of Melbourne (where he was Boyce Gibson Professor of Philosophy). His books include Doubt Truth to be a Liar (OUP, 2008), One (OUP, 2014), and Towards Non-Being (2nd ed. OUP, 2016).
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Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition 1: Validity: what follows from what? 2: Truth funtions - or not? 3: Names and quantifiers: is nothing something? 4: Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus? 5: Self-reference: What is this chapter about? 6: Necessity and possibility: what will be must be? 7: Conditionals: what's in an if? 8: The future and the past: is time real? 9: Identity and change: is anything ever the same? 10: Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope? 11: Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class 12: Inverse probability: you can't be indifferent about it! 13: Decision theory: great expectations 14: Halt! What goes there? 15: Maybe it is true - but you can't prove it! A little history and some further reading Glossary Problems Problem solutions Bibliography General index
Preface to Second Edition Preface to First Edition 1: Validity: what follows from what? 2: Truth funtions - or not? 3: Names and quantifiers: is nothing something? 4: Descriptions and existence: did the Greeks worship Zeus? 5: Self-reference: What is this chapter about? 6: Necessity and possibility: what will be must be? 7: Conditionals: what's in an if? 8: The future and the past: is time real? 9: Identity and change: is anything ever the same? 10: Vagueness: how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope? 11: Probability: the strange case of the missing reference class 12: Inverse probability: you can't be indifferent about it! 13: Decision theory: great expectations 14: Halt! What goes there? 15: Maybe it is true - but you can't prove it! A little history and some further reading Glossary Problems Problem solutions Bibliography General index
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