Logic category: 1296 books
Secrets of the Paradox
Solving the Liar and other logical problems
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2013
Far from merely recycling what we already know about certain paradoxes, this book breaks entirely new ground by providing what everyone really wants: solutions. The king of all paradoxes is the Liar ('This statement is false.' If it is true, it is false; if it is false, it is true), which in its earliest...
by Herbert Wildon Carr
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2015
A problem of philosophy is completely different from a problem of science. In science we accept our subject-matter as it is presented in unanalysed experience; in philosophy we examine the first principles and ultimate questions that concern conscious experience itself. The problem of truth is a problem...
by Jacopo Mauro
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2014
This book describes the benefits that emerge when the fields of constraint programming and concurrency meet. On the one hand, constraints can be used in concurrency theory to increase the conciseness and the expressive power of concurrent languages from a pragmatic point of view. On the other hand,...
by Captain CoolBreeze
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2012
The Captain's Log breaks down the game of No Limit Texas Holdem into several key variables and shows you how to analyze them all in one decision making process so you can make the best decisions possible at the poker tables and thus increase your profits.
False Truths
The Error of Relying on Authority
Language: English
Release Date: March 18, 2014
In False Truths, Edward C. Mendler contends that many of the beliefs, tenets, conclusions, and understandings that are widely accepted as “truths” are, in fact, not valid at all. Such dubious and false concepts arise not only in philosophy and theology but also under the rubrics of cosmology,...
by Denis Diderot
Language: French
Release Date: May 7, 2016
Language: French
Release Date: May 7, 2016
« M. Diderot, maître coutelier à Langres, mourut en 1759, généralement regretté dans sa ville, laissant à ses enfants une fortune honnête pour son état, et une réputation de vertu et de probité désirable en tout état....
Perspectives de l’homme nouveau Tome X
Les voyages dans l’Univers
Language: French
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Le TOME X de la série PERSPECTIVES DE L’HOMME NOUVEAU vous présente les voyages dans l’Univers totalement innovateurs, mais combien réels. Nous y exposons les vaisseaux, les outils et les technologies utilisés.
Le chapitre 1 s’adresse au vaisseau ambassadeur destiné à chaque terre...
by Epictetus
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2014
The Moral Discourses of Epictetus. This edition includes the Discourses and Selected Writings, The Enchiridion. Translated by Elizabeth Carter.
Epictetus (AD c. 55–135) was a Greek sage and Stoic philosopher. He was born a slave at Hierapolis, Phrygia (Turkey), and lived in Rome until his...
Conceptual Mathematics
A First Introduction to Categories
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2009
In the last 60 years, the use of the notion of category has led to a remarkable unification and simplification of mathematics. Conceptual Mathematics introduces this tool for the learning, development, and use of mathematics, to beginning students and also to practising mathematical scientists. This...
Frege Synthesized
Essays on the Philosophical and Foundational Work of Gottlob Frege
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
cake, even though it is typically given the pride of place in expositions in Frege's semantics. As a part of this attempted reversal of emphasis, Jaakko Hintikka has also called attention to the role Frege played in convincing almost everyone that verbs for being had to be treated as multiply ambiguous...
by Russell Sullivan
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2016
Have you ever stood corrected? Was it difficult? Was it uncomfortable? The Book of Things was written to correct a mistake and then sets out to make mistakes about everything! Clear your head and open your mind. This book is a book of non science, making it nonsense. Can you make sense of that? The...
Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy
Insurrection and Commonwealth
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2016
Critical pedagogy, political economics, and aesthetic theory combine with dialectical and materialist understandings of science, society, and revolutionary politics to develop the most radical goals of society and education. In Philosophy and Critical Pedagogy: Insurrection and Commonwealth, Marcuse’s...
Naming, Necessity and More
Explorations in the Philosophical Work of Saul Kripke
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
Saul Kripke's Naming and Necessity was one of the most influential philosophical works of the twentieth century. In this collection of essays leading specialists explore issues arising from this and other works of Kripke's.
Anyone Who Has a View
Theoretical Contributions to the Study of Argumentation
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
This volume contains a selection of papers from the International Conference on Argumentation (Amsterdam, 2002) by prominent international scholars of argumentation theory. It provides an insightful cross-section of the current state of affairs in argumentation research. It will be of interest to...