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Logic: A very short introduction/

By: Publication details: Oxford: Oxford University Press, c2017.Edition: 2nd edDescription: xxii, 156 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 19 cmISBN:
  • 9780198811701 (Pbk)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 160 G760L2 23
LOC classification:
  • BC71 .P75 2010
Contents:
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.
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Books Books Central Library, IISER Bhopal On Display Reference 160 G760L2 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Not For Loan Title recommended by Dr Ankur Raina 12384
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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.

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