Formal logic : a philosophical approach /
Many texts on logic are written with a mathematical emphasis, and focus primarily on the development of a formal apparatus and associated techniques. In other, more philosophical texts, the topic is often presented as an indulgent collection of musings on issues for which technical solutions have lo...
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University of Pittsburgh Press,
©2004.
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Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction. An example
- Preliminary remarks on the notion of logical form
- Validity and soundness
- Statements, primitive statements, and compound statements
- 2. Statement logic. The symbol of statement logic
- The metalogic of statement logic
- Review and overview
- 3. Predicate logic. The symbol system of predicate logic
- The metalogic of predicate logic
- Review and overview
- 4. The mathematical approach to statement logic. On mathematical approaches in general
- The syntax of statement logic
- Semantics : model theory
- Proof theory
- Review
- Prospects for predicate logic
- Appendix 1. An additional proof
- Appendix 2. Solutions to the exercises / by Christopher von Bülow and Alex Levine
- Appendix 3. Suggestions for further reading.