Edwin Mares

The Logic of Entailment and Its History

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Produktbeschreibung

"This book provides a new philosophical, semantical and historical analysis of and justification for the relevant logic of entailment. Its fresh and original perspective on the logic of entailment will be valuable for all who want to know more about the historical and philosophical origins of modern symbolic logic"--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 282
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Februar 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 244mm x 170mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 649g
• ISBN-13: 9781009375313
• ISBN-10: 1009375318
• Artikelnr.: 68543146

Autorenporträt

Edwin Mares is Professor of Philosophy at Victoria University of Wellington. His publications include Relevant Logic: A Philosophical Interpretation (Cambridge, 2004).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Why Entailment?
Part I. Entailment in the 20th Century: 2. C.I. Lewis and his school
3. Entailment and possibleworlds
4. Entailment and relevance
5. Reflexivity
Part II. Theories and Entailment: 6. Theories and closure
7. Theories of entailment
Part III. The Logic E of Relevant Entailment: 8. The logic of entailment
9. Negation and disjunction
10. Quantification
11. Entailment and reasoning
Appendices.