Search results for "Philosophy of logic" - New World Encyclopedia
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- Formal logic is logic that deals with the form or logical structure ... *Quine, Willard Van Orman. Philosophy of Logic. Englewood Cliffs, ...7 KB (926 words) - 06:33, 1 April 2024
- that attempts to reduce diverse forms of knowledge including concepts ... psychologism on the ground that principles of logic are universally true ...7 KB (1,004 words) - 23:31, 2 December 2022
- Modus Ponens and Modus Tollens are forms of valid inferences. By Modus ... affirms; often abbreviated as MP) is a form of valid inference. An instance ...6 KB (1,057 words) - 19:28, 9 November 2022
- Mathematical logic is best understood as a branch of logic or mathematics ... One unifying theme in mathematical logic is the study of the expressive ...11 KB (1,513 words) - 16:50, 7 November 2022
- In logic and mathematics, together with the allied branches of computer ... *Quine, W.V.O. Philosophy of Logic: 2nd Edition. Harvard University ...5 KB (794 words) - 06:34, 1 April 2024
- and distinguish between two different kinds of meanings or extensions of a ... ==The meaning of denotation and connotation== *In media-studies terminology ...7 KB (986 words) - 09:46, 29 January 2024
- about Logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic, Stephen Read writes ... about Logic: An Introduction to the Philosophy of Logic. Oxford: Oxford University ...13 KB (1,904 words) - 00:23, 2 December 2022
- yield a falsehood. By extension, outside of logic, contradictions are also ... Pointing to this principle in applied logic, Aristotle’s law of ...10 KB (1,641 words) - 02:48, 8 January 2024
- an important twentieth-century philosopher of science. Born in Prague, he ... The Structure of Science (1961), an examination of the logical structure ...9 KB (1,352 words) - 19:32, 13 February 2024
- A modal logic was originally designed to describe the logical relations ... The languages of modal logics usually extend preexisting logics, e ...14 KB (2,164 words) - 19:24, 9 November 2022
- correctly categorical syllogism, is a kind of logical argument in which one ... A syllogism consists of three parts—a major premise, a minor premise ...9 KB (1,397 words) - 01:55, 27 February 2023
- "occasionalism," an interpretation of Cartesian mind-body dualism ... Geulincx served as professor at the University of Leuven, Belgium ...8 KB (1,216 words) - 03:53, 15 August 2023
- A Tautology is a statement that is always true because of its structure—it ... In mathematics, ‘A = A’ is a tautology. In formal two-valued logic ...9 KB (1,481 words) - 16:04, 23 June 2023
- Metalogic is a study of formal languages of logic from both syntactic ... ==Formal Languages of Logic== Formal languages are artificial languages ...14 KB (2,296 words) - 16:20, 9 November 2022
- concept in Aristotelian or traditional logic (also sometimes called syllogistic ... Logic is the study of correct, or valid inferences. Aristotle’s ...12 KB (1,791 words) - 18:00, 30 November 2023
- Bridge of Asses or Pons Asinorum (Latin for "Bridge of Asses ... The term “Bridge of Asses” first came into use during the Middle ...8 KB (1,319 words) - 23:03, 20 November 2023
- An argument is an attempt to demonstrate the truth of an assertion ... The conclusion of this argument is “the next flip will probably ...9 KB (1,514 words) - 06:26, 12 August 2023
- to the impossible," is a form of argument where one provisionally ... The so-called 'early' dialogues of the Greek philosopher Plato ...7 KB (1,079 words) - 02:58, 8 December 2022
- In philosophy the notion of categories derives from Aristotle’s (384-322 B.C.E.) logic and ontology. In logic the categories are understood ...7 KB (987 words) - 18:01, 30 November 2023
- In philosophy and logic, the liar paradox encompasses paradoxical ... his words to be understood as a kind of liar paradox. They were probably ...11 KB (1,725 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
