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Logic : Inquiry, Argument, and Order.

By: Pratt, Scott L.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: New York Academy of Sciences Ser: Publisher: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2014Copyright date: �2010Description: 1 online resource (273 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781119016199.Genre/Form: Electronic books.Online resources: Click to View
Contents:
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Significance of Logic -- 1.1 The Problem of Abstraction -- 1.2 The Problem of Dualism -- 1.3 The Problem of Incommensurability -- 1.4 The Problem of Boundaries -- 1.5 Examples for Discussion -- 1.6 Premises and Conclusions -- 1.7 Exercises -- Chapter 2: What is Logic? -- 2.1 The Study of Logic -- 2.2 The Concepts of Truth and Inference -- 2.3 The Process of Inquiry -- 2.4 Exercises -- 2.5 Argument as Inquiry -- 2.6 Exercises -- Chapter 3: Communicative Action -- 3.1 Strategic and Communicative Action -- 3.2 Exercises -- 3.3 Lifeworlds -- 3.4 Exercises -- 3.5 Validity -- 3.6 Fallacies -- 3.7 Exercises -- Chapter 4: Theory of the Syllogism -- 4.1 Nominalism, Realism, and Abduction -- 4.2 The Theory of the Syllogism -- 4.3 Standard Form Propositions -- 4.4 Exercises -- 4.5 Direct Inference -- 4.6 Exercises -- 4.7 The Validity of Syllogisms -- 4.8 Exercises -- Chapter 5: Induction and the Limits of Reason -- 5.1 Limits of the Syllogism -- 5.2 The Principles of Induction -- 5.3 Analogical Arguments -- 5.4 Exercises -- 5.5 Causal Arguments -- 5.6 Exercises -- 5.7 Probability -- 5.8 Exercises -- Chapter 6: Principles of Order and Deduction -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Modes of Action -- 6.3 Principles of Order -- 6.4 Logic and the Act of Judgment -- 6.5 Deduction: The Logic of Assertions -- 6.6 Graphical Proofs of Validity -- 6.7 Exercises -- Chapter 7: An Overview of Quantified Logic -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Representing Relations -- 7.3 The Meaning of Quantifiers -- 7.4 Exercises -- 7.5 Rules of Quantificational Logic -- 7.6 Exercises -- 7.7 The Validity of Syllogisms -- 7.8 Graphical Proofs of Validity -- 7.9 Exercises -- 7.10 Border Agents and the Problems of Logic -- Solutions -- Bibliography -- Index.
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Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: The Significance of Logic -- 1.1 The Problem of Abstraction -- 1.2 The Problem of Dualism -- 1.3 The Problem of Incommensurability -- 1.4 The Problem of Boundaries -- 1.5 Examples for Discussion -- 1.6 Premises and Conclusions -- 1.7 Exercises -- Chapter 2: What is Logic? -- 2.1 The Study of Logic -- 2.2 The Concepts of Truth and Inference -- 2.3 The Process of Inquiry -- 2.4 Exercises -- 2.5 Argument as Inquiry -- 2.6 Exercises -- Chapter 3: Communicative Action -- 3.1 Strategic and Communicative Action -- 3.2 Exercises -- 3.3 Lifeworlds -- 3.4 Exercises -- 3.5 Validity -- 3.6 Fallacies -- 3.7 Exercises -- Chapter 4: Theory of the Syllogism -- 4.1 Nominalism, Realism, and Abduction -- 4.2 The Theory of the Syllogism -- 4.3 Standard Form Propositions -- 4.4 Exercises -- 4.5 Direct Inference -- 4.6 Exercises -- 4.7 The Validity of Syllogisms -- 4.8 Exercises -- Chapter 5: Induction and the Limits of Reason -- 5.1 Limits of the Syllogism -- 5.2 The Principles of Induction -- 5.3 Analogical Arguments -- 5.4 Exercises -- 5.5 Causal Arguments -- 5.6 Exercises -- 5.7 Probability -- 5.8 Exercises -- Chapter 6: Principles of Order and Deduction -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Modes of Action -- 6.3 Principles of Order -- 6.4 Logic and the Act of Judgment -- 6.5 Deduction: The Logic of Assertions -- 6.6 Graphical Proofs of Validity -- 6.7 Exercises -- Chapter 7: An Overview of Quantified Logic -- 7.1 Introduction -- 7.2 Representing Relations -- 7.3 The Meaning of Quantifiers -- 7.4 Exercises -- 7.5 Rules of Quantificational Logic -- 7.6 Exercises -- 7.7 The Validity of Syllogisms -- 7.8 Graphical Proofs of Validity -- 7.9 Exercises -- 7.10 Border Agents and the Problems of Logic -- Solutions -- Bibliography -- Index.

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