Logic from a rhetorical point of view /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Marciszewski, Witold
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin ; New York : W. de Gruyter, 1994.
Colección:Foundations of communication and cognition.
Temas:
Logic.
Reasoning.
Rhetoric > Philosophy.
PHILOSOPHY > Logic.
Logic
Reasoning
Rhetoric > Philosophy
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Chapter One: On the Rhetorical Point of View
  • 1. Why rhetoric declined, and what remained of it
  • 2. Descartes, Leibniz and Pascal facing a crisis in logic
  • Chapter Two: Mind-Philosophical Logic as a Theory of Intelligence
  • 1. A terminological introduction
  • 2. A case study and methodological comments
  • 3. Conceptual potential and conceptual engineering
  • Chapter Three: Formalized versus Intuitive Arguments. The Historical Background
  • 1. On how geometry and algebra influenced logic
  • 2. The Renaissance reformism and intuitionism in logic3. Leibniz on the mechanization of arguments
  • Chapter Four: Towards the Logic of General Names
  • 1. From syllogistic to the calculus of classes
  • 2. The existential import of general names
  • 3. What names stand for: an exercise in Plato
  • Chapter Five: The Truth-Functional Calculus and the Ordinary Use of Connectives
  • 1. The functional approach to logic
  • 2. The truth-functional analysis of denial and conjunction
  • 3. The truth-functional analysis of disjunction
  • 4. The truth-functional analysis of conditionalsChapter Six: The Predicate Calculus
  • 1. Subject, predicate, quantifiers
  • 2. Quantification rules, interpretation, formal systems
  • 3. Predicate logic compared with natural logic
  • Chapter Seven: Reasoning, Logic, and Intelligence
  • 1. Does a logical theory improve natural intelligence?
  • 2. The internal logical code in human bodies
  • 3. The problem of generalization in the internal code
  • 4. What intelligent generalization depends on
  • 5. The role of a theory for intelligent generalization
  • 6. Logic and geography of mind: mental kinds of reasoning7. Formal (â€?blindâ€?) reasoning and artificial intelligence
  • Chapter Eight: Defining, Logic, and Intelligence
  • 1. The ostension procedure as a paradigm of definition
  • 2. Normal definitions of predicates and names
  • 3. The holistic doctrine of definition
  • 4. Implicit definitions and conclusive conceptualization
  • Chapter Nine: Symbolic Logic and Objectual Reasoning. Case Studies
  • 1. On the case study method
  • 2. Ciceroâ€?s reasoning in the light of symbolic logic
  • 3. Marthaâ€?s objectual reasoning matched by symbolic logic4. Aspasiaâ€?s argument confronted with predicate logic
  • Chapter Ten: Implicit Definitions and Conceptual Networks. Case Studies
  • 1. A connectivist approach
  • 2. The contrastive background: a definition for computers
  • 3. The case of a definition in the food market
  • 4. The case of nonexistent Geist and similar cases
  • The Postscript as a Book-Network Interface Material versus Formal Arguments
  • References
  • Index of Names
  • Index of Subjects
  • Extended Table of Contents

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