Between Logic and the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Logic and the World write by Bernhard Nickel. This book was released on 2016. Between Logic and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In our everyday thought and talk, we put things into categories in order to generalize about them: 'Lions have manes', 'Ravens are black'. Bernhard Nickel presents a theory of generic sentences and the modes of thought they express, integrating compositional semantics with metaphysics to solve the problems of what they mean and how they work.
Between Logic and the World
Between Logic and the World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Between Logic and the World write by Bernhard Nickel. This book was released on 2016-03-25. Between Logic and the World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between Logic and the World presents a theory of generic sentences and the kind-directed modes of thought they express. The theory closely integrates compositional semantics with metaphysics to solve the problem that generics pose: what do generics mean? Generic sentences are extremely simple, yet if there are patterns to be discerned in terms of which are true and which are false, these patterns are subtle and complex. Ravens are black, lions have manes, sea-turtles are long-lived, and bishops in chess move along diagonals. Statistical measures cannot do justice to the facts, but what else is there that at least has a hope of giving us insight into what we are capturing across so many domains? Bernhard Nickel argues that generics are the top of a fundamentally explanatory iceberg. By focusing on blackness in ravens and manes in lions, for instance, we can place the kinds into a framework structured by explanatory considerations. Between Logic and the World argues that this explanatory framework is deeply intertwined with the semantics of the language we use to express them, and in giving its integrated semantic and metaphysical theory of generics, it aims to solve old puzzles and draw attention to new phenomena.
The World-Time Parallel
The World-Time Parallel - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The World-Time Parallel write by A. A. Rini. This book was released on 2012-01-19. The World-Time Parallel available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The only book to investigate the parallel between what happens at other times and what happens in other possible worlds.
If A, Then B
If A, Then B - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook If A, Then B write by Michael Shenefelt. This book was released on 2013-06-11. If A, Then B available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. While logical principles seem timeless, placeless, and eternal, their discovery is a story of personal accidents, political tragedies, and broad social change. If A, Then B begins with logic's emergence twenty-three centuries ago and tracks its expansion as a discipline ever since. It explores where our sense of logic comes from and what it really is a sense of. It also explains what drove human beings to start studying logic in the first place. Logic is more than the work of logicians alone. Its discoveries have survived only because logicians have also been able to find a willing audience, and audiences are a consequence of social forces affecting large numbers of people, quite apart from individual will. This study therefore treats politics, economics, technology, and geography as fundamental factors in generating an audience for logic--grounding the discipline's abstract principles in a compelling material narrative. The authors explain the turbulent times of the enigmatic Aristotle, the ancient Stoic Chrysippus, the medieval theologian Peter Abelard, and the modern thinkers René Descartes, David Hume, Jeremy Bentham, George Boole, Augustus De Morgan, John Stuart Mill, Gottlob Frege, Bertrand Russell, and Alan Turing. Examining a variety of mysteries, such as why so many branches of logic (syllogistic, Stoic, inductive, and symbolic) have arisen only in particular places and periods, If A, Then B is the first book to situate the history of logic within the movements of a larger social world. If A, Then B is the 2013 Gold Medal winner of Foreword Reviews' IndieFab Book of the Year Award for Philosophy.
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World
The Art of Logic in an Illogical World - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Art of Logic in an Illogical World write by Eugenia Cheng. This book was released on 2018-09-11. The Art of Logic in an Illogical World available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. How both logical and emotional reasoning can help us live better in our post-truth world In a world where fake news stories change election outcomes, has rationality become futile? In The Art of Logic in an Illogical World, Eugenia Cheng throws a lifeline to readers drowning in the illogic of contemporary life. Cheng is a mathematician, so she knows how to make an airtight argument. But even for her, logic sometimes falls prey to emotion, which is why she still fears flying and eats more cookies than she should. If a mathematician can't be logical, what are we to do? In this book, Cheng reveals the inner workings and limitations of logic, and explains why alogic -- for example, emotion -- is vital to how we think and communicate. Cheng shows us how to use logic and alogic together to navigate a world awash in bigotry, mansplaining, and manipulative memes. Insightful, useful, and funny, this essential book is for anyone who wants to think more clearly.
