Foundations of Logical Consequence
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: Jul 01, 2015
Language: eng
Format: hardcover
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780198715696
Description: Logical consequence is the relation that obtains between premises and conclusion(s) in a valid argument. Orthodoxy has it that valid arguments are necessarily truth-preserving, but this platitude only raises a number of further questions, such as: how does the truth of premises guarantee the truth of a conclusion, and what constraints does validity impose on rational belief? This volume presents thirteen essays by some of the most important scholars in the field of philosophical logic. The essays offer ground-breaking new insights into the nature of logical consequence; the relation between logic and inference; how the semantics and pragmatics of natural language bear on logic; the relativity of logic; and the structural properties of the consequence relation.
Notes: Source title: Foundations of Logical Consequence (Mind Association Occasional Series)