Exploring Topics in the History and Philosophy of Logic

by George Englebretsen

While post-Fregean logicians tend to ignore or even denigrate the traditional logic of Aristotle and the Scholastics, new work in recent years has shown the viability of a renewed, extended, and strengthened logic of terms that shares fundamental features of the old syllogistic. A number of logicians, following the lead of Fred Sommers, have built just such a term logic. It is a system of formal logic that not only matches the expressive and inferential...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 311044223X
• ISBN13: 9783110442236
• Release Date: August 2015
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.07 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"