Logic category: 1296 books
Exploring Mathematics
An Engaging Introduction to Proof
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2017
Exploring Mathematics gives students experience with doing mathematics - interrogating mathematical claims, exploring definitions, forming conjectures, attempting proofs, and presenting results - and engages them with examples, exercises, and projects that pique their interest. Written with a minimal...
Burning Galileo - The Vital Question
The Rules of Rhetoric, The Socratic Method, and Critical Thinking, #1
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2016
What would happen if Galileo were alive today?
Would he survive Western Civilization and the Politically Correct Thought Police?
This SHORT STORY is a brisk and refreshing walk through the Socratic Method as applied to Global Warming and Climate Change (e.g. AGW- Anthropogenic Global...
Collective Rationality
Equilibrium in Cooperative Games
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Groups of people perform acts that are subject to standards of rationality. A committee may sensibly award fellowships, or may irrationally award them in violation of its own policies. A theory of collective rationality defines collective acts that are evaluable for rationality and formulates principles...
Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems
22nd International Conference, TACAS 2016, Held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software, ETAPS 2016, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, April 2-8, 2016, Proceedings
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2016
This book constitutes the proceedings of the 22nd International Conference on Tools and Algorithms for the Construction and Analysis of Systems, TACAS 2016, which took place in Eindhoven, The Netherlands, in April 2016, held as Part of the European Joint Conferences on Theory and Practice of Software,...
by Aristotle
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2012
Along with Plato and Socrates, Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) is one of the triumvirate of philosophers responsible for the establishment of Western philosophy as it exists today. Socrates, Plato and Aristotle were among the first to refine philosophical thought, and Socrates is credited with devising the...
Why Do We Live?
A Simple Answer to a Complex Question
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
Why Do We Live? A Simple Answer to a Complex Question is an analytical book that prompts readers to think about the realities of life. It was written to make us understand the complexities around us and to see through the complex behavior of different groups of people.----Author B. P. Pai researched...
A Custodian of Grammar
Essays on Wittgenstein's Philosophical Morphology
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2013
The nature of method has always been a topic at the very heart of western philosophical traditions, especially in the 20th century. One of the most influential philosophers of the last century, Ludwig Wittgenstein, changed not just his philosophical standpoint at least twice in his lifetime, but the...
Thinking through Error
The Moving Target of Knowledge
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
The aim of Thinking through Error: The Moving Target of Knowledge is to describe knowledge as it works in our everyday attitude and behavior. Often in life, when making decisions and choices, we do not need to test the truth of our beliefs, so there must be another way to guide ourselves. With this...
The Real Numbers
An Introduction to Set Theory and Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
While most texts on real analysis are content to assume the real numbers, or to treat them only briefly, this text makes a serious study of the real number system and the issues it brings to light. Analysis needs the real numbers to model the line, and to support the concepts of continuity and measure....
Words and Objections
Essays on the Work of W.V. Quine
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com menting...
Ludwig Wittgenstein
His Place in the Development of Semantics
Language: English
Release Date: March 9, 2013
Various students of general linguistics and semantics quote and discuss Wittgenstein, among others, OGDEN and RICHARDS (1960), ULLMANN (1951, 1962), PAGLIARO (1952, 1957), WELLS (1960), REGNELL (1960) and 1 ZIFF (1960). For the most part however they quote the Tractatus and not 2 the Philosophical...
by Baruch Spinoza, Émile Saisset
Language: French
Release Date: December 14, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: December 14, 2015
AVIS AU LECTEUR I. Le bien que les hommes désirent ordinairement II. Le bien véritable et suprême III. Règles de vie IV. Les différents modes de perception V. Le meilleur...
Discours de la Méthode
suivi des Méditations
Language: French
Release Date: October 24, 2013
Le Discours de la méthode (sous-titré Pour bien conduire sa raison, et chercher la vérité dans les sciences) est le premier texte philosphique publié par René Descartes en 1637. Dans les premières éditions, ce discours servait d'introduction à trois traités scientifiques mettant en application...
by Aristote
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Language: French
Release Date: June 3, 2019
Musaicum Books vous présente les oeuvres majeures d'Aristote, une édition numérique méticuleusement éditée et formatée. Aristote, surnommé le Stagirite, est un philosophe grec né en 384 av. J.-C. à Stagire, en Macédoine, et mort en 322 av. J.-C. à Chalcis, en Eubée. Disciple de Platon...