Logic, the theory of inquiry
By: by John Dewey.
Publisher: H. Holt and Company
Published: 1938
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 546
Subjects: Logic; Thought and thinking
Description: "This book is a development of ideas regarding the nature of logical theory that were first presented ... in Studies in logical theory; that were somewhat expanded in Essays in experimental logic and were briefly summarized with special reference to education in How we think."--Preface.
Notes: "This book is a development of ideas regarding the nature of logical theory that were first presented ... in Studies in logical theory; that were somewhat expanded in Essays in experimental logic and were briefly summarized with special reference to education in How we think."--Pref.

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Table of contents: title: pt. I. Introduction. The problem of logical subject-matter; title: The existential matrix of inquiry : biological; title: The existential matrix of inquiry : cultural; title: Common sense and scientific inquiry; title: The needed reform of logic; title: pt. II. The structure of inquiry and the construction of judgments. The pattern of inquiry; title: The construction of judgment; title: Immediate knowledge : understanding and inference; title: Judgments of practice : evaluation; title: Affirmation and negation : judgment as requalification; title: The function of propositions of quantity in judgment; title: Judgment as spatial-temporal determination : narration-description; title: The continuum of judgment : general propositions; title: Generic and universal propositions; title: pt. III. Propositions and terms. General theory of propositions; title: Propositions ordered in sets and series; title: Formal functions and canons; title: Terms or meanings; title: pt. IV. The logic of scientific method. Logic and natural science : form and matter; title: Mathematical discourse; title: Scientific method : induction and deduction; title: Scientific laws : causation and sequences; title: Scientific method and scientific subject-matter; title: Social inquiry; title: The logic of inquiry and philosophies of knowledge.