The Logic of Entailment and Its History

by Edwin Mares

What follows from what, and how do we make statements (whether true or false) about which inferences are correct? In this book, Edwin Mares provides a new philosophical, semantical and historical analysis of and justification for the relevant logic of entailment. In the first half of the book he examines some key ideas in the historical development of the logic of entailment, looking in particular at the notion 'is derivable from' and at how symbolic...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009375318
• ISBN13: 9781009375313
• Release Date: February 2024
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 282 Pages
• Weight: 1.43 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.7" x 9.6"