Formal Logic: Or, The Calculus Of Inference, Necessary And Probable - Brossura

De Morgan, Augustus

 
9781108070782: Formal Logic: Or, The Calculus Of Inference, Necessary And Probable

Sinossi

Helping to overturn long-standing assumptions, this important 1847 work treats logic as a branch of mathematics, more specifically as algebra.

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Descrizione del libro

One of the ablest British mathematicians of his age, Augustus De Morgan (1806–71) played an important role in overturning assumptions concerning the rules of logic and inference with the publication of this book in 1847. It treats logic as a branch of mathematics, more specifically as algebra.

Contenuti

Preface; 1. First notions; 2. On objects, ideas, and names; 3. On the abstract form of the proposition; 4. On propositions; 5. On the syllogism; 6. On the syllogism (cont.); 7. On the Aristotelian syllogism; 8. On the numerically definite syllogism; 9. On probability; 10. On probable inference; 11. On induction; 12. On old logical terms; 13. On fallacies; 14. On the verbal description of the syllogism; Appendices.

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