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Paradoxes
The book is a monograph devoted to paradoxes of reasoning in the European tradition of philosophical logic. For each paradox, it analyses important attempts at its solution.The content is arranged according to the new classification of paradoxes presented by the author. The paradoxes discussed in th...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Dordrecht :
Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer,
2011.
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2011. |
| Series: | Trends in Logic, Studia Logica Library,
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| Online Access: | Texto Completo |
Table of Contents:
- Preface
- Introduction
- 1. Sophisms and paralogisms (paradoxes of: horses, Newcomb, Fitch)
- 2. Wrong intuition's paradoxes (paradoxes of: common birthday, approximation, Stevenson's bottle, Hempel, infinity)
- 3. Paradoxes coming from ambiguity (paradoxes of Protagoras, Elektra, horn-headed man, the club without a name, God's omnipotence, stone)
- 4. Paradoxes of self-reference (Möbius ribbon (band), Klein's bottle, liar paradox, Buridan, barber, Richard, Berry, Grelling and Nelson, unexpected examination, crocodile)
- 5. Ontological paradoxes
- 6. Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Subject index
- Name index.