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This Sentence Is False : an Introduction to Philosophical Paradoxes.
Put your neurons through their paces with this lively and engaging introduction to paradoxes. From Buridan's Ass and the Surprise Examination to The Liar and Sleeping Beauty, This Sentence is False introduces all the key philosophical paradoxes. This fascinating guide to logic and reasoning is...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Publishing,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface; Acknowledgements; 1 Welcome to the rational irrational
- how to win, how to starve, and how to pump money; 2 Too clever by one-half
- or, at least, one-eighth; 3 Lather, rinse, repeat
- 'repeat' did you say?; 4 Infinity: without end, without beginning
- yet with a flea, a fly and a bandit; 5 Heaps and haze, colours and clocks
- and 1,001 cats; 6 Ravens, lotteries, medical matters
- and a gruesome tale or two; 7 Morality and politics
- blackmail, buck-passing and voting; 8 Encounters with God
- and his mysterious ways.
- 9 Encounters with our mysterious ways
- love, luck and life10 When to stop; Appendix 1: Further reading; Appendix 2: Notes, sources and references; Appendix 3: Paradoxes purveyed; Bibliography; General Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.