Ruminations
Subtitle: Sundry notes and essays on Logic
Publisher: Avi Sion
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Geneva, Switzerland
Table of contents: title: 1.	About the Laws of Thought 7; title: 1.	Dialectical Reasoning 7; title: 2.	Genesis of Axioms 10; title: 3.	Paradoxical Propositions 12; title: 4.	Contradiction 18; title: 5.	Varieties of Contradiction 21; title: 6.	Double Standards 23; title: 7.	Special Status of the Laws 26; title: 8.	Motors of Rational Thought 30; title: 9.	Cogito, Ergo Sum 31; title: 10.	Concerning Identity 33; title: 2.	About Induction 36; title: 1.	Critical thought 36; title: 2.	Misappropriation 37; title: 3.	Evidence 38; title: 4.	Detail 40; title: 5.	Seems and Is 40; title: 6.	Adduction 41; title: 7.	Pertinence 42; title: 8.	Trial and Error 43; title: 9.	Field Specific 44; title: 10.	The Human Factor 45; title: 11.	Theorizing 48; title: 12.	Approaching Reality 50; title: 13.	Experiment 51; title: 14.	The Uncertainty Principle 53; title: 15.	Epistemic Ethics 57; title: 16.	Phenomenology 59; title: 17.	Appearance, Reality and Illusion 62; title: 18.	Existence and Non-existence 65; title: 19.	Philosophy and Religion 69; title: 3.	About Words 83; title: 1.	Meaning 83; title: 2.	Traditional Distinctions 90; title: 3.	Logic and Linguistics 98; title: 4.	Dialogue 104; title: 5.	Poles of Duality 107; title: 4.	About Formal Logic 110; title: 1.	Form and Content 110; title: 2.	Singular Subject 112; title: 3.	Special Forms 115; title: 4.	Fuzzy Logic 117; title: 5.	Added Determinants 118; title: 6.	Relational Expressions 121; title: 7.	Disjunction 123; title: 8.	Material and Strict Implication 133; title: 9.	Nesting of Hypotheticals 137; title: 10.	Compound Theses 140; title: 11.	Validation of Nesting 145; title: 12.	Brackets in Logic 149; 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 166; title: 5.	A Formal Impossibility 172; title: 6.	The Analytic/Synthetic Dichotomy 177; title: 7.	On the Russell Paradox 180; title: 8.	An Illustration of Russell’s 182; title: 9.	On Grelling’s Paradox 185; title: 6.	About “Modern Logic” 192; title: 1.	A School of Logicians 192; title: 2.	Alleged New Methods 192; title: 3.	Non-Aristotelian “Logic” 194; title: 4.	Postmodern “Logic” 198; title: 5.	Mere Manipulations 200; title: 6.	Thinking Reflexively 202; title: 7.	Conventional Logic 204; title: 8.	Absolute Truths 205; title: 9.	Untouched by Consciousness 206; title: 10.	Logical Atomism 207; title: 11.	Exclusive Judgments 211; title: 12.	Empty Terms 213; 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 229; title: 6.	Experimental Techniques 233; title: 7.	Private Languages 235; 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 250; title: 7.	Billiard Balls 252; title: 8.	Against Kant on Freewill 254; title: 9.	Alleged Influences 259; title: 10.	Analogical Inferences 262; title: 9.	About Negation 269; title: 1.	Negation in Adduction 269; title: 2.	Positive and Negative Phenomena 273; title: 3.	Positive Experience Precedes Negation 276; title: 4.	Negation is an Intention 281; title: 5.	Formal Consequences 284; title: 6.	Negation and the Laws Of Thought 288; title: 7.	Pure Experience 293; title: 8.	Consistency is Natural 296; title: 9.	Status of the Logic of Causation 299; title: 10.	Zero, One and More 301; title: 11.	Psychology of Negation 306; title: 12.	Negation in Meditation 307; title: 10.	Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation 310; title: 1.	Introduction 310; title: 2.	Traditional Claims and Historical Record 312; title: 3.	Comparisons and Assessments 318; title: 11.	Islamic Logic 329; title: 1.	The Structure of Islamic Law 329; title: 2.	Islamic Hermeneutics 334; title: 3.	Interpreters 345; title: 12.	Logical Aspects of Foucault’s Archeology 349; title: 1.	Slippery 349; title: 2.	Catch Him 353; title: 3.	Healing 362; title: 13.	Comments on 3 chapters of Foucault 370; title: 1.	Las Meninas 370; title: 2.	The Prose of the World 371; title: 3.	Representing 376; 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