Karel Lambert

Free Logic

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

The essays in this collection explore free logic, an important field of philosophical logic that first appeared in the 1950s.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 204
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 491g
• ISBN-13: 9780521818162
• ISBN-10: 0521818168
• Artikelnr.: 22335294

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Russell's version of the theory of definite descriptions
2. Existential import, 'E!' and 'the'
3. The reduction of two paradoxes and the significance thereof
4. The Hilbert-Bernays theory of definite descriptions
5. Foundations of the hierarchy of positive free definite description theories
6. Predication and extensionality
7. Nonextensionality
8. The philosophical foundations of free logic
9. Logical truth and microphysics.