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Logic and How it Gets That Way (Acumen Research Editions) - Hardcover

Jacquette, Dale

 
9781844651429: Logic and How it Gets That Way (Acumen Research Editions)
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1844651428 ISBN 13: 9781844651429
Publisher: Routledge, 2008

Synopsis

In this challenging and provocative analysis, Dale Jacquette argues that contemporary philosophy labours under a number of historically inherited delusions about the nature of logic and the philosophical significance of certain formal properties of specific types of logical constructions. Exposing some of the key misconceptions about formal symbolic logic and its relation to thought, language and the world, Jacquette clears the ground of some very well-entrenched philosophical doctrines about the nature of logic, including some of the most fundamental seldom-questioned parts of elementary propositional and predicate-quantificational logic. Having presented difficulties for conventional ways of thinking about truth functionality, the metaphysics of reference and predication, the role of a concept of truth in a theory of meaning, among others, Jacquette proceeds to reshape the network of ideas about traditional logic that philosophy has acquired along with modern logic itself. In so doing Jacquette is able to offer a new perspective on a number of existing problems in logic and philosophy of logic.

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Dale Jacquette

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2008
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1844651428
ISBN 13 
9781844651429
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
320