Logic: A History of Its Central Concepts: 11 (Handbook of the History of Logic) : Volume 11

Dov M. Gabbay, Francis J. Pelletier, John Woods

ISBN 10: 0444529373 / ISBN 13: 9780444529374

Published by NORTH HOLLAND, 2012

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Neu neuware, importqualität, auf lager - The Handbook of the History of Logic is a multi-volume research instrument that brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. It is the first work in English in which the history of logic is presented so extensively. The volumes are numerous and large. Authors have been given considerable latitude to produce chapters of a length, and a level of detail, that would lay fair claim on the ambitions of the project to be a definitive research work. Authors have been carefully selected with this aim in mind. They and the Editors join in the conviction that a knowledge of the history of logic is nothing but beneficial to the subject's present-day research programmes. One of the attractions of the Handbook's several volumes is the emphasis they give to the enduring relevance of developments in logic throughout the ages, including some of the earliest manifestations of the subject. Covers in depth the notion of logical consequence Discusses the central concept in logic of modality Includes the use of diagrams in logical reasoning.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Logic: A History of Its Central Concepts: 11 (Handbook of the History of Logic) : Volume 11
• Publisher: NORTH HOLLAND
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0444529373
• ISBN 13: 9780444529374
• Binding: Gebundene Ausgabe
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 249W x 193H x 36D millimeters 249 millimeters width by 193 millimeters height by 36 millimeters depth
• Weight: 1701 grams

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The Handbook of the History of Logic is a multi-volume research instrument that brings to the development of logic the best in modern techniques of historical and interpretative scholarship. It is the first work in English in which the history of logic is presented so extensively. The volumes are numerous and large. Authors have been given considerable latitude to produce chapters of a length, and a level of detail, that would lay fair claim on the ambitions of the project to be a definitive research work. Authors have been carefully selected with this aim in mind. They and the Editors join in the conviction that a knowledge of the history of logic is nothing but beneficial to the subject's present-day research programmes. One of the attractions of the Handbook's several volumes is the emphasis they give to the enduring relevance of developments in logic throughout the ages, including some of the earliest manifestations of the subject.

• Covers in depth the notion of logical consequence
• Discusses the central concept in logic of modality
• Includes the use of diagrams in logical reasoning

About the Author

Dov M. Gabbay is Augustus De Morgan Professor Emeritus of Logic at the Group of Logic, Language and Computation, Department of Computer Science, King's College London. He has authored over four hundred and fifty research papers and over thirty research monographs. He is editor of several international Journals, and many reference works and Handbooks of Logic.