Screen LibraryStudies in the history of logic /
It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher s interest, others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value. Througho...
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De Gruyter,
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| Publisher Address: | Berlin/Boston : |
| Publication Dates: |
[2006] ©2006 |
| Literature type: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Collected papers; Volume 10 |
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It must be acknowledged that the essays presented here do not constitute a systematic account of any sort but represent occasional forays. Some deal with matters that happened to evoke Rescher s interest, others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value. Throughout, challenges of the work itself more than compensated the author s efforts. Logic has always been of crucially important concern to philosophers. Rescher s own involvement with the history of logic goes back to his work on Leibniz in the 1950 s (represented by Chapter 8 of the present book). Thereafter, during the 1960 s he devoted considerable effort to the contributions of the medieval logicians of the Arabic-using world (here represented in Chapters 2-6). Moreover, Rescher have from time to time returned to the area to look at some aspects of the more recent scene, as Chapters 8-9 illustrate. In some instances the present essays have been overtaken by subsequent events-events which in fact helped to promote. This is true in particular in chapter 6 s work on Arabic work regarding temporal modalities, which was instrumental in evoking the important contributions of Tony Street of Cambridge University. |
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1 online resource (189 pages) : illustrations. Also available in print edition. |
| ISBN: | 9783110326444 |
| Index Number: | BC15 |
| CLC: | B81 |
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Frontmatter -- Table of Contents -- PREFACE -- Chapter 1: ON ARISTOTLE S APODEICTIC SYLLOGISMS -- Chapter 2: AL-KIND S SKETCH OF ARISTOTLE S ORGANON -- Chapter 3: A NINTH-CENTURY ARABIC LOGICIAN ON: IS EXISTENCE A PREDICATE? -- Chapter 4: AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OF "CONDITIONAL" PROPOSITIONS -- Chapter 5: AVICENNA ON THE LOGIC OF QUESTIONS -- Chapter 6: THE ARABIC THEORY OF TEMPORAL MODAL SYLLOGISTIC -- Chapter 7: CHOICE WITHOUT PREFERENCE: THE PROBLEM OF "BURIDAN S ASS" -- Chapter 8: LEIBNIZ S INTERPRETATION OF HIS LOGICAL CALCULI -- Chapter 9: RUSSELL AND MODAL LOGIC -- Chapter 10: DEFAULT REASONING -- Name Index. |