Logic: A very short introduction/
Priest, Graham.
Logic: A very short introduction/ - 2nd ed. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2017. - xxii, 156 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Validity : what follows from what? -- Truth functions,or not -- Names and quantifiers : is nothing something? -- Descriptions and existence : did the greeks worship Zeus? -- Self-reference : what is this chapter about? -- Necessity and possibility : what will be must be? -- Conditionals: what's in an if? -- The future and the past : is time real?? -- Identity and change : is anything ever the same? -- Vaguenes : how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope? -- Probability : the strange case of the missing reference class -- Inverse probability : you can't be indifferent about it! -- Decision theory : great expectations -- A little history and some further reading.
9780198811701 (Pbk)
2009040869
Logic.
BC71 / .P75 2010
160 G760L2
Logic: A very short introduction/ - 2nd ed. - Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2017. - xxii, 156 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Validity : what follows from what? -- Truth functions,or not -- Names and quantifiers : is nothing something? -- Descriptions and existence : did the greeks worship Zeus? -- Self-reference : what is this chapter about? -- Necessity and possibility : what will be must be? -- Conditionals: what's in an if? -- The future and the past : is time real?? -- Identity and change : is anything ever the same? -- Vaguenes : how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope? -- Probability : the strange case of the missing reference class -- Inverse probability : you can't be indifferent about it! -- Decision theory : great expectations -- A little history and some further reading.
9780198811701 (Pbk)
2009040869
Logic.
BC71 / .P75 2010
160 G760L2