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IDENTITY AND DISCERNIBILITY IN PHILOSOPHY AND LOGIC

The Review of Symbolic Logic, 2011
AbstractQuestions about the relation between identity and discernibility are important both in philosophy and in model theory. We show how a philosophical question about identity and discernibility can be ‘factorized’ into a philosophical question about the adequacy of a formal language to the description of the world, and a mathematical question about
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The philosophy of logical wholism

Synthese, 1991
The present paper is one installment in a lengthy task, the replacement of atomistic interpretations of Wittgenstein’s Tractatus by a wholistic interpretation on which the world-in-logical-space is not constructed out of objects but objects are abstracted from out of that space.
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Philosophy of Logic

Journal of Indian Council of Philosophical Research, 2017
The paper addresses three main issues drawing on Husserl’s writings on logic. First, what gives the logical objects their objective status, given the fact that these are intimately connected with human mental processes? Second, if logical objects are objective then how is logical knowledge at all possible?
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Teaching Logic in Philosophy

2011
Logic considered as a general model of reasoning is equated in most cases with argumentation. The symbolic component of logic is the main component of the teaching of the subject, even in a first course in Philosophy, but for students with poor technical skills, formal logic is not the best way to enhance their thinking and their initiation to the ...
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Logic and Philosophy

1993
The dual purpose of this volume--to provide a distinctively philosophical introduction to logic, as well as a logic-oriented approach to philosophy--makes this book a unique and worthwhile primary text for logic and/or philosophy courses. _Logic and Philosophy_ covers a variety of elementary formal and informal types of reasoning, including a chapter ...
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Logic, Computation and Philosophy

1990
The great attraction of the deductive method is that it serves to «divide and conquer». By breaking a proof into minute steps, difficulty gives way to complexity the comprehension of which usually requires a lower order of intellectual capacity. In the words of Descartes, « For whenever single facts have been immediately deduced the one from the other,
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Modal Logics and Philosophy

2009
Unlike most modal logic textbooks, which are both forbidding mathematically and short on philosophical discussion, Modal Logics and Philosophy places its emphasis firmly on showing how useful modal logic can be as a tool for formal philosophical analysis.
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