Logical forms: an introduction to philosophical logic

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Logical forms: an introduction to philosophical logic

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• Logical forms: an introduction to philosophical logic

Publication

• 1991
• Oxford, Blackwell, 1991

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 383-392) and index

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Contents

1. Validity -- What is logic about? -- Inductive versus deductive logic -- Possibility: logical and physical -- Validity, inconsistency and negation -- Arguments and argument-claims -- Some important properties of validity -- Validity and usefulness: "sound", "relevant", "persuasive" -- Sentences and propositions -- Validity and truth conditions -- Formal validity -- The logical constants -- The project of formalization -- 2. Truth functionality -- The classical propositional language -- Truth functional sentence connectives -- Formalizing English in P -- Comparison of P-connectives and English -- The case against the material implication account of "if" -- Implicature -- "If": implicature in defence of the truth functional interpretation -- "If": direct arguments for the truth functional interpretation -- Non-truth functionality in English -- From P-validity to validity -- 3. Conditionals -- Conditionals and probabilities -- Probabilities, and propositions and assertion -- Stalnaker's theory -- 4. Quantification -- The classical quantificational language -- Interpretations and validity -- Universal quantification -- Existential quantification -- Adjectives -- Adverbs -- Names -- Identity -- Numeral adjectives -- Descriptions -- Existence -- Are names "really" descriptions? -- Structural ambiguity in English -- Q-validity and decision -- Formalizing arguments -- Attitudes -- Binary quantifiers -- Substitutional quantifiers -- Predicate quantifiers -- Freedom from existence -- Depth -- From Q-validity to validity -- 5. Necessity -- Adding to P -- Subjunctive donditionals -- Adding to Q -- Necessity de re and de dicto -- The number of the planets -- "Frege's argument" -- Trans-world identity -- Counterpart theory -- Necessity and vagueness -- Metaphysics -- 6. The project of formalization -- Logical versus grammatical form -- Analysis and the Tractarian vision -- Proof -- Formal and structural validity -- Logical constancy -- Language, form and structure

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24 cm

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vii, 398 pages

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9780631177784

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b1624645