Ruminations
Subtitle: Sundry notes and essays on Logic
Publisher: Author through Lulu.com
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 400
ISBN-13: 9782970009177
Table of contents: title: 1.	About the Laws of Thought	9; title: 1.	Dialectical Reasoning	9; title: 2.	Genesis of Axioms	12; title: 3.	Paradoxical Propositions	14; title: 4.	Contradiction	20; title: 5.	Varieties of Contradiction	23; title: 6.	Double Standards	25; title: 7.	Special Status of the Laws	28; title: 8.	Motors of Rational Thought	31; title: 9.	Cogito, Ergo Sum	32; title: 10.	Concerning Identity	34; title: 2.	About Induction	37; title: 1.	Critical thought	37; title: 2.	Misappropriation	38; title: 3.	Evidence	39; title: 4.	Detail	40; title: 5.	Seems and Is	41; title: 6.	Adduction	42; title: 7.	Pertinence	43; title: 8.	Trial and Error	44; title: 9.	Field Specific	45; title: 10.	The Human Factor	46; title: 11.	Theorizing	48; title: 12.	Approaching Reality	51; title: 13.	Experiment	51; title: 14.	The Uncertainty Principle	54; title: 15.	Epistemic Ethics	57; title: 16.	Phenomenology	60; title: 17.	Appearance, Reality and Illusion	63; title: 18.	Existence and Non-existence	66; title: 19.	Philosophy and Religion	69; title: 3.	About Words	83; title: 1.	Meaning	83; title: 2.	Traditional Distinctions	89; title: 3.	Logic and Linguistics	97; title: 4.	Dialogue	104; title: 5.	Poles of Duality	106; title: 4.	About Formal Logic	111; title: 1.	Form and Content	111; title: 2.	Singular Subject	113; title: 3.	Special Forms	116; title: 4.	Fuzzy Logic	117; title: 5.	Added Determinants	119; title: 6.	Relational Expressions	121; title: 7.	Disjunction	124; title: 8.	Material and Strict Implication	133; title: 9.	Nesting of Hypotheticals	137; title: 10.	Compound Theses	141; title: 11.	Validation of Nesting	145; title: 12.	Brackets in Logic	148; title: 5.	About Paradoxes	151; title: 1.	On the Liar Paradox	151; title: 2.	Making No Claim	153; title: 3.	Nagarjuna’s Trickery	157; title: 4.	Non-apprehension of Non-things	165; title: 5.	A Formal Impossibility	171; title: 6.	The Analytic/Synthetic Dichotomy	176; title: 7.	On the Russell Paradox	179; title: 8.	An Illustration of Russell’s	181; title: 9.	On Grelling’s Paradox	184; title: 6.	About “Modern Logic”	191; title: 1.	A School of Logicians	191; title: 2.	Alleged New Methods	191; title: 3.	Non-Aristotelian “Logic”	193; title: 4.	Postmodern “Logic”	197; title: 5.	Mere Manipulations	198; title: 6.	Thinking Reflexively	200; title: 7.	Conventional Logic	202; title: 8.	Absolute Truths	204; title: 9.	Untouched by Consciousness	205; title: 10.	Logical Atomism	206; title: 11.	Exclusive Judgments	209; title: 12.	Empty Terms	211; title: 7.	About Cognitive Development	215; title: 1.	The Fourth R	215; title: 2.	Empirical Studies	217; title: 3.	Piaget’s Model	220; title: 4.	Piaget’s Experiments	222; title: 5.	Lines of Inquiry	228; title: 6.	Experimental Techniques	232; title: 7.	Private Languages	234; title: 8.	About Causal Logic	239; title: 1.	Induction of Causatives	239; title: 2.	True of All Opposites	241; title: 3.	Extensional to Natural	242; title: 4.	Hume’s Denials	243; title: 5.	Hume’s Mentalism	247; title: 6.	Constant Conjunction	249; title: 7.	Billiard Balls	252; title: 8.	Against Kant on Freewill	254; title: 9.	Alleged Influences	259; title: 10.	Analogical Inferences	261; title: 9.	About Negation	269; title: 1.	Negation in Adduction	269; title: 2.	Positive and Negative Phenomena	272; title: 3.	Positive Experience Precedes Negation	276; title: 4.	Negation is an Intention	280; title: 5.	Formal Consequences	284; title: 6.	Negation and the Laws Of Thought	287; title: 7.	Pure Experience	292; title: 8.	Consistency is Natural	294; title: 9.	Status of the Logic of Causation	298; title: 10.	Zero, One and More	300; title: 11.	Psychology of Negation	304; title: 12.	Negation in Meditation	305; title: 10.	Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation	309; title: 1.	Introduction	309; title: 2.	Traditional Claims and Historical Record	311; title: 3.	Comparisons and Assessments	317; title: 11.	Islamic Logic	327; title: 1.	The Structure of Islamic Law	327; title: 2.	Islamic Hermeneutics	332; title: 3.	Interpreters	342; title: 12.	Logical Aspects of Foucault’s Archeology	347; title: 1.	Slippery	347; title: 2.	Catch Him	351; title: 3.	Healing	360; title: 13.	Comments on 3 chapters of Foucault	369; title: 1.	Las Meninas	369; title: 2.	The Prose of the World	370; title: 3.	Representing	375; title: 14.	Bolzano’s Semantics Concepts	387; title: 1.	“Propositions-in-Themselves”	387; title: 2.	“Ideas-in-Themselves”	391; title: 3.	The Issue of Time	396