Logic
Subtitle: inquiry, argument, and order
By: Scott L. Pratt.
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, Inc.
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Hoboken, N.J
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780470373767
Subjects: Logic
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The significance of logic; title: The problem of abstraction; title: The problem of dualism; title: The problem of incommensurability; title: The problem of boundaries; title: Examples for discussion; title: Premises and conclusions; title: Sample exercises; title: What is logic?; title: The study of logic; title: The concept of truth; title: The process of inquiry; title: Argument as inquiry; title: Communicative action; title: Strategic and communicative action; title: Exercises; title: Lifeworlds; title: Validity; title: Fallacies; title: Theory of the syllogism; title: Nominalism, realism, and abduction; title: The theory of the syllogism; title: Standard form propositions; title: Direct inference; title: The validity of syllogisms; title: Induction and the limits of reason; title: The limits of syllogism; title: The principles of induction; title: Analogical arguments; title: Causal arguments; title: Probability; title: Principles of order and deduction; title: Modes of action; title: Principles of order; title: Logic and the act of judgment; title: Deduction : the logic of assertions; title: Graphical proofs of validity; title: An overview of quantified logic; title: Representing relations; title: The meaning of quantifiers; title: Rules of quantification; title: The validity of syllogisms; title: Graphical proofs of validity.