Logic category: 1296 books
The Enigmatic Expanse
Existence, #1
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2018
Consider the famous question: "What came first - The chicken or the egg?"
Continuing further we ask: "What came first - The body or the soul? The atoms or the quarks? Energy or matter?"
"Did the god create us or, did we create him?"
When the universe was to be created, did God hold the...
Paradox Lost
Logical Solutions to Ten Puzzles of Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2018
Paradox Lost covers ten of philosophy’s most fascinating paradoxes, in which seemingly compelling reasoning leads to absurd conclusions. The following paradoxes are included:
The Liar Paradox, in which a sentence says of itself that it is false. Is the sentence true or false?
The...
by Chung-ying Cheng
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This book is based on my doctoral dissertation written at Harvard University in the year of 1963. My interest in Peirce was inspired by Professor D. C. Williams and that in Lewis by Professor Roderick Firth. To both of them lowe a great deal, not only in my study of Peirce and Lewis, but in my general...
by Andre Michaud
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2012
Description of the neural network based human thinking process and of how it can be used optimally by anyone.
A beginner's guide to coherent thinking.
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Could we all understand anything?
Could IQ testing be a dead end, a rather futile exercise in comprehension speed...
Wittgenstein in the 1930s
Between the Tractatus and the Investigations
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2018
Wittgenstein's 'middle period' is often seen as a transitional phase connecting his better-known early and later philosophies. The fifteen essays in this volume focus both on the distinctive character of his teaching and writing in the 1930s, and on its pivotal importance for an understanding of his...
Properties, Types and Meaning
Volume II: Semantic Issues
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This collection of papers stems originally from a conference on Property Theory, Type Theory and Semantics held in Amherst on March 13-16 1986. The conference brought together logicians, philosophers, com puter scientists and linguists who had been working on these issues (of ten in isolation from...
Education's Epistemology
Rationality, Diversity, and Critical Thinking
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2017
Education's Epistemology extends and further defends Harvey Siegel's "reasons conception" of critical thinking. It analyzes and emphasizes both the epistemic quality, and the dispositions and character traits that constitute the "critical spirit," that are central to a proper account of critical thinking;...
by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2018
On the Commonwealth represents Cicero's first serious attempt to bring Greek theories of political life to the circumstances of the Roman Republic. While some passages have been lost or reduced to fragments, it remains an important work of political philosophy and essential reading for political science students.
Finite Ordered Sets
Concepts, Results and Uses
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2012
Ordered sets are ubiquitous in mathematics and have significant applications in computer science, statistics, biology and the social sciences. As the first book to deal exclusively with finite ordered sets, this book will be welcomed by graduate students and researchers in all of these areas. Beginning...
Virtues of the Mind
An Inquiry into the Nature of Virtue and the Ethical Foundations of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 1996
Almost all theories of knowledge and justified belief employ moral concepts and forms of argument borrowed from moral theories, but none of them pay attention to the current renaissance in virtue ethics. This remarkable book is the first attempt to establish a theory of knowledge based on the model...
Philosophy
The Concept and its Manifestations
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
The present book is concerned with the nature of philosophy and with the scope of philosophical interest. It combines an analysis of the major types of philosophical thinking as they emerged in the history of philosophical ideas with an attempt to examine problems which recurrent ly emerge in philosophical...
by I.A. Kieseppä
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Philosophers of science have produced a variety of definitions for the notion of one sentence, theory or hypothesis being closer to the truth, more verisimilar, or more truthlike than another one. The definitions put forward by philosophers presuppose at least implicitly that the subject matter with...
by Somers Isle & Loveshade
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2015
Lady Fortuna embodies the idea of building your own fortune, and sense of driving your life, in her enduring and stable embodiment as Fortuna Manens. This embodiment of Lady Fortuna is the preferred avenue of interpretation in the Sun on the Rocks series. This book is meant to be a companion to Sun on the Rocks fiction amusements. Readers will learn about the Golden Way of Inner Strength.
Rough Sets
International Joint Conference, IJCRS 2018, Quy Nhon, Vietnam, August 20-24, 2018, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
This LNAI 1103 constitutes the proceedings of the International Joint Conference on Rough Sets, IJCRS 2018, held in Quy Nhon, Vietnam, in August 2018.
The 40 full papers presented together with 5 short papers were carefully reviewed and selected from 61 submissions. The IJCRS conferences...