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  • 1
    ISBN: 9789401021128
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (606p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 70
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 70
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: to the Problems of the Foundations of Mathematics -- 1. Mathematical Domains -- 2. Examples of Mathematical Domains -- 3. Selected Kinds of Relations and Functions -- 4. Logical Analysis of Mathematical Concepts -- 5. Zermelo’s Set Theory -- 6. Set-Theoretical Approach to Relations and Functions -- 7. The Genetic Construction of Natural Numbers -- 8. Expansion of the Concept of Number -- 9. Construction of New Mathematical Domains -- 10. Subdomains, Homomorphisms, Isomorphisms -- 11. Products. Real Numbers -- I. The Classical Logical Calculus -- 1. The Classical Characteristics of the Sentential Connectives -- 2. Tautologies in the Classical Sentential Calculus and Their Applications to Certain Mathematical Considerations -- 3. An Axiomatic Approach to the Sentential Calculus -- 4. The Classical Concept of Quantifier -- 5. The Predicate Calculus in the Traditional Interpretation -- 6. Reduction of Quantifier Rules to Axioms, c.l.c Tautologies True in the Empty Domain -- 7. The Concepts of Consequence and Theory. Applications of the Logical Calculus to the Formalization of Mathematical Theories -- 8. The Logical Functional Calculus L* and Its Applications to the Formalization of Theories with Functions -- 9. Certain Syntactic Properties of the Classical Logical Calculus -- 10. On Definitions -- II. Models of Axiomatic Theories -- 1. The Concept of Satisfaction -- 2. The Concepts of Truth and Model. The Properties of the Set of Sentences True in a Model -- 3. Existence of co-complete Extensions and Denumerable Models -- 4. Some Other Concepts and Results in Model Theory -- 5. Skolem’s Elimination of Quantifiers, Consistency of Compound Theories and Interpolation Theorems -- 6. Definability -- III. Logical Hierarchy of Concepts -- 1. The Concept of Effectiveness in Arithmetic -- 2. Some Properties of Computable Functions 417 -- 3. Effectiveness of Methods of Proof -- 4. Representability of Computable Relations in Arithmetic -- 5. Problems of Decidability -- 6. Logical Hierarchy of Arithmetic Concepts -- Supplement. a Historical Outline -- Index of Symbols -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: Recent years have seen the appearance of many English-language hand­ books of logic and numerous monographs on topical discoveries in the foundations of mathematics. These publications on the foundations of mathematics as a whole are rather difficult for the beginners or refer the reader to other handbooks and various piecemeal contribu­ tions and also sometimes to largely conceived "mathematical fol­ klore" of unpublished results. As distinct from these, the present book is as easy as possible systematic exposition of the now classical results in the foundations of mathematics. Hence the book may be useful especially for those readers who want to have all the proofs carried out in full and all the concepts explained in detail. In this sense the book is self-contained. The reader's ability to guess is not assumed, and the author's ambition was to reduce the use of such words as evident and obvious in proofs to a minimum. This is why the book, it is believed, may be helpful in teaching or learning the foundation of mathematics in those situations in which the student cannot refer to a parallel lecture on the subject. This is also the reason that I do not insert in the book the last results and the most modem and fashionable approaches to the subject, which does not enrich the essential knowledge in founda­ tions but can discourage the beginner by their abstract form. A. G.
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  • 2
    ISBN: 9789401021302
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (224p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 9
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Philosophy, classical ; Logic ; Philosophy, Ancient.
    Abstract: One Ancient Semantics -- Aristotle on Spoken Sound Significant by Convention -- Inarticulate Noises -- Notes for a Linguistic Reading of the Categories -- Two Modern Research in Ancient Logic -- Greek Mathematics and Greek Logic -- Modern Notations and Ancient Logic -- Three Aristotle’s Logic -- Aristotle’s Natural Deduction System -- Corcoran on Aristotle’ Logical Theory -- Four Stoic Logic -- Deduction in Stoic Logic -- Remarks on Stoic Deduction -- Five Final Session of the Symposium -- Future Research on Ancient Theories of Communication and Reasoning -- A Panel Discussion on Future Research in Ancient Logical Theory -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: During the last half century there has been revolutionary progress in logic and in logic-related areas such as linguistics. HistoricaI knowledge of the origins of these subjects has also increased significantly. Thus, it would seem that the problem of determining the extent to which ancient logical and linguistic theories admit of accurate interpretation in modern terms is now ripe for investigation. The purpose of the symposium was to gather logicians, philosophers, linguists, mathematicians and philologists to present research results bearing on the above problem with emphasis on logic. Presentations and discussions at the symposium focused themselves into five areas: ancient semantics, modern research in ancient logic, Aristotle's logic, Stoic logic, and directions for future research in ancient logic and logic-related areas. Seven of the papers which appear below were originally presented at the symposium. In every case, discussion at the symposium led to revisions, in some cases to extensive revisions. The editor suggested still further revisions, but in every case the author was the finaljudge of the work that appears under his name.
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  • 3
    ISBN: 9789401092760
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (407p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 7-1
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 7-1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I: Economics of Decision -- Introductory Note -- 1. Rational Behavior, Uncertain Prospects, and Measurable Utility (1950) -- 2. Why ‘Should’ Statisticians and Businessmen Maximize ‘Moral Expectation’ ? (1951) -- 3. Scaling of Utilities and Probabilities (1954) -- 4. Probability in the Social Sciences (1954) -- 5. Norms and Habits of Decision Making Under Certainty (1955) -- 6. Experimental Tests of a Stochastic Decision Theory (1959) -- 7. Random Orderings and Stochastic Theories of Responses (1960) -- 8. Binary-Choice Constraints and Random Utility Indicators (1960) -- 9. Actual Versus Consistent Decision Behavior (1964) -- 10. Stochastic Models of Choice Behavior (1963) -- 11. On Adaptive Programming (1963) -- 12. An Experimental Study of Some Stochastic Models for Wagers (1963) -- 13. The Payoff-Relevant Description of States and Acts (1963) -- 14. Probabilities of Choices Among Very Similar Objects: An Experiment to Decide Between Two Models (1963) -- 15. Measuring Utility by a Single-Response Sequential Method (1964) -- 16. Decision Making: Economic Aspects (1968) -- 17. The Economic Man’s Logic (1970) -- 18. Economics of Acting, Thinking, and Surviving (1974) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The papers of Jacob Marschak which follow in these volumes are an extraordinary combination of original and fruitful departures in economic and social thought, superb clarity of exposition, and sensitivity to the values of earlier work and even competing traditions. They make us marvel alike at their variety, their quantity, and their quality. But they do not, even so, fully reflect Marschak's contributions to the development of social science. He has had an unusual influence as one who exercises leadership. In a formal, organizational sense, this role has been manifest in his capacity as Director of the Cowles Commission for Research in Economics, then at the University of Chicago, in that organization's most productive and influential period, and later in his central role in the Western Management Science Institute, at the University of California at Los Angeles. I can speak from first-hand knowledge about the first. His special capacities are, first, the recognition of promising new concepts and of promising young scholars, and, second, getting his colleagues to join him in developing the ideas and involving them fully in the necessary tasks. There was an unusual combination of strength and humility in his methods; a display of force in pushing the work along but a willingness, almost an insistence, on treating even the most junior associate as a fully equal colleague in intellectual develop­ ment, whose criticism of himself was to be encouraged. His leadership has been exercised in the absence of formal positions.
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  • 4
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    ISBN: 9789401021593
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (201p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 1
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I. Objective Theory of Inductive Behaviour -- Elements of an Objective Theory of Inductive Behaviour -- On the Problem of Vagueness in the Social Sciences -- Notes On Etiality, the Adaptation Criterion, and the ‘Inference-Decision’ Problem -- II. Problems of Inference -- Comparison of Inference Philosophies -- On the Logic of Tests of Significance with Special Reference to Testing the Significance of Poisson-Distributed Observations -- III. Probability, Information and Utility -- Probability and Utility — Dual Concepts in Decision Theory -- Entropy and Utility -- Entropy, Gravity and Utility in Transportation Modelling -- IV. Semantic Information -- Prior and Posterior Probabilities and Semantic Information -- Remarks on Semantic Information -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Under the title 'Information, Inference and Decision' this volume in the Theory and Decision Library presents some papers on issues from the borderland of statistical inference philosophy and epistemology, written by statisticians and decision theorists who belonged or are allied to the former Saarbriicken school of statistical decision theory. In the first part I make an attempt to outline an objective theory of inductive behaviour, on the basis of R. A. Fisher's statistical inference philosophy, on the one hand, and R. Carnap's inductive logic, on the other. A special problem arising in the context of the new theory, viz., the problem of vagueness of concepts (in particular in the social sciences) is treated separately by H. Skala and myself. B. Leiner has contributed some biographical and bibliographical notes on the objective theory of inductive behaviour. Part II is concerned with inference philosophy. D. A. S. Fraser, the founder of structural inference theory, characterizes and compares some inference philosophies, and discusses his own and the arguments of the critics of his structural theory. In my opinion, Fraser's structural infer­ ence theory is suited to complete Fisher's inference philosophy in some essential points, if not to replace it. An interesting task for future re­ search work is to establish the connection between Fraser's theory and Carnap's ideas in the framework of an objective theory of inductive behaviour.
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  • 5
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    ISBN: 9789401021753
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (IX, 433 p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and of the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 65
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 65
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: I / The Probability Framework -- II / Classical Statistical Theory -- III / R. A. Fisher: Likelihood and Fiducial Inference -- IV / Decision Theory -- V / Subjective and Logical Approaches -- VI / Comparison of Approaches -- VII / The Language: Syntax -- VIII / Rational Corpora -- IX / Randomness -- X / Probability -- XI / Conditional Probability -- XII / Interpretations of Probability -- XIII / Bayesian Inference -- XIV / The Fiducial Argument -- XV / Confidence Methods -- XVI / Epistemological Considerations -- Appendix / The Mathematical Background.
    Abstract: Everyone knows it is easy to lie with statistics. It is important then to be able to tell a statistical lie from a valid statistical inference. It is a relatively widely accepted commonplace that our scientific knowledge is not certain and incorrigible, but merely probable, subject to refinement, modifi­ cation, and even overthrow. The rankest beginner at a gambling table understands that his decisions must be based on mathematical ex­ pectations - that is, on utilities weighted by probabilities. It is widely held that the same principles apply almost all the time in the game of life. If we turn to philosophers, or to mathematical statisticians, or to probability theorists for criteria of validity in statistical inference, for the general principles that distinguish well grounded from ill grounded generalizations and laws, or for the interpretation of that probability we must, like the gambler, take as our guide in life, we find disagreement, confusion, and frustration. We might be prepared to find disagreements on a philosophical and theoretical level (although we do not find them in the case of deductive logic) but we do not expect, and we may be surprised to find, that these theoretical disagreements lead to differences in the conclusions that are regarded as 'acceptable' in the practice of science and public affairs, and in the conduct of business.
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  • 6
    ISBN: 9789401021913
    Language: English
    Pages: Online-Ressource (221p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 63
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 63
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: Semantic Analyses for Dyadic Deontic Logic -- Some Remarks Concerning Many-Valued Propositional Logics -- Conditional Obligation -- Remarks on Interpersonal Utility Theory -- On the Proper Treatment of Quantifiers in Montague Semantics -- Extracting Information from Logical Proofs -- A New Approach to the Logical Theory of Actions and Causality -- Some Basic Concepts of Action -- Some Remarks Concerning Logical and Ontological Theories -- Combined Evidence -- Solution to a Problem Raised by Stig Kanger and a Set Theoretical Statement Equivalent to the Axiom of Choice -- On Characterizing Elementary Logic -- Rules and Derived Rules -- A Program for Pragmatics -- Models -- Remarks on Logic and Probability -- Analytic and Synthetic Arithmetical Statements -- Index of Names -- Tabula Gratulatoria.
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  • 7
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    ISBN: 9789401021098
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (475p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 62
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 62
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    Abstract: 1. Logic as a Foundation of Teaching -- I Words, Thoughts and Objects -- I Expressions and Their Meanings -- II Statements and Their Parts -- III Objective Counterparts of Expressions -- IV Ambiguity of Expressions and Defects of Meanings -- V Definitions -- VI Questions and Interrogative Sentences -- II Inference -- I Formal Logic and the Consequence Relation -- II Inference and the Conditions of Its Correctness -- III Subjectively Certain Inference -- IV Subjectively Uncertain Inference -- III Methodological Types of Sciences -- I The Division of Sciences into Deductive and Inductive -- II Deductive Sciences -- III The Inductive Sciences -- IV Inductive Sciences and Scientific Laws -- V Statistical Reasoning -- Supplement: Proving and Explaining.
    Abstract: When asked in 1962 on what he was working Kazimierz Ajdukiewicz replied: Several years ago Polish Scientific Publishers suggested that I pre­ pare a new edition of The Logical Foundations of Teaching, which I wrote 1 before 1939 as a contribution to The Encyclopaedia of Education. It was a small booklet covering elementary information about logical semantics and scientific methodology, information which in my opinion was necessary as a foundation of teaching and as an element of the education of any teacher. When I recently set to preparing the new edition, I rewrote practically everything, and a booklet of some 100 pages swelled into a bulky volume almost five times bigger. The issues have remained practically the same, but they are now analysed much more thoroughly and the threshold of difficulty is much higher now. The main stress has been laid on the methods used in the empirical sciences, and within that field, on the theory of measurement and the methods of statistical inference. I am now working on the last chapter of the book, concerned with explanation procedures and theory construction in the empirical sciences. When that book, which I intend to entitle Pragmatic Logic, is com­ pleted I intend to prepare for the press Vol. 2 of my minor writings, 2 Language and Cognition, which will cover some of my post-war pa­ pers.
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  • 8
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    ISBN: 9789401020930
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 16
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 16
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Linguistics Philosophy ; Science Philosophy ; Social sciences ; Language and languages—Philosophy. ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: I/The Anatomy of Acquired Disorders of Reading (1962) -- II/Random Reports: Human Split-Brain Syndromes (1962) -- III/A Human Cerebral Deconnection Syndrome (1962) -- IV/Carl Wernicke, the Breslau School and the History of Aphasia (1963) -- V/The Paradoxical Position of Kurt Goldstein in the History of Aphasia (1964) -- VI/Non-Aphasic Disorders of Speech (1964) -- VII/The Development of the Brain and the Evolution of Language (1964) -- VIII/Disconnexion Syndromes in Animals and Man (1965) -- IX/Color-Naming Defects in Association with Alexia (1966) -- X/Language-Induced Epilepsy (1967) -- XI/The Varieties of Naming Errors (1967) -- XII/Wernicke’s Contribution to the Study of Aphasia (1967) -- XIII/Shrinking Retrograde Amnesia (1967) -- XIV/The Apraxias (1967) -- XV/Dichotic Listening in Man after Section of Neocortical Commissures (1968) -- XVI/Isolation of the Speech Area (1968) -- XVII/Human Brain: Left-Right Asymmetries in Temporal Speech Region (1968) -- XVIII/Developmental Gerstmann Syndrome (1969) -- XIX/The Alexias (1969) -- XX/Problems in the Anatomical Understanding of the Aphasias (1969) -- XXI/The Organization of Language and the Brain (1970) -- XXII/Disorders of Higher Cortical Function in Children (1972) -- XXIII/Writing Disturbances in Acute Confusional States (1972) -- XXIV/A Review: Traumatic Aphasia by A. R. Luria (1972) -- XXV/Conduction Aphasia. (1973) -- XXVI/Apraxia and Agraphia in a Left-Hander (1973) -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: Philosophers of science work not only with the methods of the sciences but with their contents as well. Substantive issues concerning the relation between mind and matter, between the material basis and the functions of cognition, have been central within the entire history of philosophy. We recall such philosophers as Aristotle, Descartes, the early Kant, Ernst Mach, and the early William James as directly inquiring of the organs and structures of thinking. Science and its philosophical self-criticism are especially and deeply united in the effort to understand the biological brain and human behavior, and so it requires no apology to include this collection of clinical studies among Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science. The work of Dr. Norman Geschwind, well represented in this selection, explores the relation between structure and function, between the anatomy of the brain and the 'higher' behavior of men and women. As a clinical neurologist, Geschwind was led to these studies particularly by his in­ terest in those pathologies which have to do with human perception and language. His research into the anatomical substrates of specific dis­ orders-and strikingly the aphasias -present a fascinating and provocative examination of fundamental questions which will concern not neurologists alone but also psychologists, physicians, linguists, speech pathologists, educators, anthropologists, historians of medicine, and philosophers, among others, namely all those interested in the characteristic modes of human activity, in speech, in perception, and in the learning process generally.
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  • 9
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    ISBN: 9789401092784
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (374p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 7-2
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 7-2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: II: Economics of Information and Organization -- Introductory Note -- 19. Optimal Inventory Policy (1951) -- 20. Towards an Economic Theory of Organization and Information (1954) -- 21. Elements for a Theory of Teams (1955) -- 22. Efficient and Viable Organizational Forms (1959) -- 23. Remarks on the Economics of Information (1959) -- 24. Theory of an Efficient Several Person Firm (1960) -- 25. Problems in Information Economics (1964) -- 26. The Cost of Decision Making: An Interdisciplinary Discussion (1956) -- 27. Economics of Language (1965) -- 28. Economic Planning and the Cost of Thinking (1966) -- 29. Economic Comparability of Information Systems (1968) -- 30. Economics of Inquiring, Communicating, Deciding (1968) -- 31. Economics of Information Systems (1971) -- 32. Optimal Systems for Information and Decision (1972) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    ISBN: 9789401092807
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 7-3
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 7-3
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    Abstract: III: Money and Other Assets Introductory Note -- 33. Money and the Theory of Assets (1938) -- 34. Assets, Prices and Monetary Theory (1938) -- 35. Lack of Confidence (1941) -- 36. Wicksell’s Two Interest Rates (1941) -- 37. Role of Liquidity under Complete and Incomplete Information (1949) -- 38. The Rationale of the Demand for Money and of ‘Money Illusion’ (1950) -- 39. Optimal Investment of a Firm (1950) -- 40. Monnaie et Liquidité dans les Modèles macroéconomiques et microéconomiques (1954) -- IV: Economic Measurements Introductory Note -- 41. A Note on the Period of Production (1934) -- 42. Measurements in the Capital Market (1935/6) -- 43. An Empirical Analysis of the Laws of Distribution (1936) -- 44. Personal and Collective Budget Functions (1939) -- 45. Economic Interdependence and Statistical Analysis (1942) -- 46. Money Illusion and Demand Analysis (1943) -- 47. Random Simultaneous Equations and the Theory of Production (1944) -- 48. Economic Structure, Path, Policy, and Prediction (1947) -- 49. Economic Measurements for Policy and Prediction (1953) -- V: Contributions to the Logic of Economics Introductory Note -- 50. Identity and Stability in Economics: A Survey (1942) -- 51. A Cross Section of Business Cycle Discussion: A Review of ‘Readings’ (1945) -- 52. Comment on Mitchell (1951) -- 53. Wladimir Woytinsky and Economic Theory (1962) -- 54. On Econometric Tools (1969) -- 55. Interdisciplinary Discussions on Mathematics in Behavioral Sciences (1972) -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    ISBN: 9789401022880
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 8
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 8
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    Abstract: The Value of Studying Subjective Evaluations of Probability -- The True Subjective Probability Problem -- Subjective Probability: A Judgment of Representativeness -- The Psychological Concept of Subjective Probability: A Measurement-Theoretic View -- Are Subjective Probabilities Probabilities? -- On the Generalizability of Experimental Results -- Statistical Analysis: Theory Versus Practice -- A Selected Bibliography -- Author Index.
    Abstract: 1. BACKGROUND The last twenty-five years have seen a large amount of psychological research in the area of behavioral decision theory. It followed the major breakthrough of decision theory that came with von Neumann and Morgenstern's Theory of Games and Economic Behavior in 1944. The key concepts are probability as a measure of uncertainty and utility as a measure of value and risk. The theory prescribes, given some behavioral axioms, that alternatives should be ranked in accordance with their expected utilities. Psychologists became interested in studying how people's decision behavior agreed with what was prescribed by the theory. Three broad areas for research developed, i. e. , research relating to each of the two concepts of probability and utility, and research relating to the interaction of the two in decision stituations. The papers in this book have been selected to illustrate various aspects of how the concept of probability has been used in psychological ex­ perimentation. The early experiments were generated, as mentioned above, by an interest among psychologists to see how people evaluate uncertainty and quantify it in probabilistic terms. Many of these experiments set out to evaluate subjects' estimates of relative frequencies; these were situations where one had access to 'objective' answers. In the 1960's psychologists changed the focus of their studies to how people revise probabilistic judgments when they receive new information. In recent years there has been a growing interest in the cognitive processes by which people express their judgment in probabilistic terms.
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    ISBN: 9789401022590
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (443p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 6
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 6
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I. General Methodology -- A New Epitheoretical Analysis of Social Theories; A Reconstruction of their Background Knowledge including a Model of Statistical Decision Theory -- Theories and Phenomena -- Partial Interpretation and Microeconomics -- The Foundation of Science on Cognitive Mini-Models, with Applications to the German Methodenstreit and the Advent of Econometrics -- II. Methods for Laying the Foundations of Social Systems and Social Structures -- Systems of Social Exchange -- The Concept of Social Structure -- Societies and Social Decision Functions -- Honing Occam’s Razor: A General System Theory Perspective on Social Science Methodology -- III. Vagueness, Imprecision and Uncertainty in Social Laws and Forecasts -- Toward Fuzzy Reasoning in the Behavioral Sciences -- Evolutionary Laws in the Social Sciences -- Methodological Analysis of Imprecision in the Assessment of Personal Probabilities -- The Necessity, Sufficiency and Desirability of Experts as Value Forecasters -- Rational Choice Models and Self-Fulfilling and Self-Defeating Prophecies -- IV. Methodology of Statistics and Hypothesis Testing -- Statistical Probabilities: Single Case Propensities vs. Long-Run Frequencies -- Variety of Objects as a Parameter for Experimentation: An Extension of Carnap’s Inductive Logic -- The Strategic Combination Argument -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: Philosophy of Science deals with the problem, 'What is science?' It seems that the answer to this question can only be found if we have an answer to the question, 'How does science function?' Thus, the study of the methodology of social sciences is a prominent factor in any analysis of these sciences. The history of philosophy shows clearly that the answer to the question, 'How does science function?' was the conditio sine qua non of any kind of philosophy of science, epistemology and even of logic. Aristotle, Hume, Kant, Mill, Russell, to mention a few classical authors, clearly emphasized the primacy of methodology of science for any kind of philosophy of science. One may even state that analyses of the presup­ positions, the foundations, the aims, goals and purposes of science are nothing else than analyses of their general and specific formal, as well as practical and empirical methods. Thus, the whole program of any phi­ losophy of science is dependent on the analysis of the methods of sciences and the establishment of their criteria. If the study of scientific method is the predominant factor in the philosophy of science, then all the other problems will depend on the outcome of such a study. For example, the old question of a possible unity of all social sciences will be brought to a solution by the study of the presuppositions, the methods, as well as of the criteria germane to all social sciences.
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    Series Statement: Publications of the Research Group for European Migration Problems
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Emigration and immigration. ; Sociology. ; Human geography.
    Abstract: I. Introduction -- II. Defining Return Migration -- III. The “Laws” of Return Migration -- IV. Types of Return Migration -- V. Success or Failure: the Motives for Return Migration -- VI. Readjustment Problems of Returned Migrants -- VII. Some Influences of Returnees on Their Home Country -- VIII. Techniques in Return Migration Research -- IX. The Direction of Future Research in Return Migration.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 69
    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Studies in Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, and Philosophy of Science 69
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic ; Mathematical logic.
    Abstract: 1/Local Isomorphism and Logical Formula; Logical Restriction Theorem -- 1.1. (k,p)-Isomorphism -- 1.2. (k,p)-Equivalence -- 1.3. Characteristic of a Logical Formula. Relations Between (k,p) -Isomorphism and Logical Formula -- 1.4. Logical Extension and Logical Restriction; Logical Restriction Theorem -- 1.5. Examples of Finitely-Axiomatizable and Non-Finitely-Axiomatizable Multirelations -- 1.6. (k,p)-Interpretability -- 1.7. Homogeneous and Logically Homogeneous Multirelations -- 1.8. Rigid and Logically Rigid Multirelations -- Exercises -- 2/Logical Convergence; Compactness, Omission and Interpretability Theorems -- 2.1. Logical Convergence -- 2.2. Compactness Theorem -- 2.3. Omission Theorem -- 2.4. Interpretability Theorem -- 2.5. Every Injective Logical Operator is Invertible -- Exercise -- 3/Elimination of Quantifiers -- 3.1. Absolute Eliminant -- 3.2. (k,p)-Eliminant -- 3.3. Elimination Algorithms for the Chain of Rational Numbers and the Chain of Natural Numbers -- 3.4. Positive Dense Sum; Elimination of Quantifiers over the Sum of Rational or Real Numbers -- 3.5. Positive Discrete Divisible Sum; Elimination of Quantifiers over the Sum of Natural Numbers -- 3.6. Real Field; Elimination of Quantifiers over the Sum and Product of Algebraic Numbers or Real Numbers -- Exercises -- 4/Extension Theorems -- 4.1. Restrictive Sequence; (k,p)-Isomorphism and (k,p)-Identimorphism -- 4.2. Application to Logical Restriction -- 4.3. Projection Filter -- 4.4. Logical Extension Theorems -- 4.5. Theorem on Common Logical Extensions -- 4.6. Logical Morphism and Logical Embedding -- Exercises -- 5/Theories and Axiom Systems -- 5.1. Theory: Consistency; Intersection of Theories -- 5.1 Axiom System. Class of Models; Union-Theory, Finitely-Axiomatizable Theory, Saturated Theory -- 5.3. Complement of a Theory -- 5.4. Categoricity -- 5.5. Model-Saturated Theory -- Exercises -- 6/Pseudo-Logical Class; Interpretability of Theories; Expansion of a Theory; Axiomatizability -- 6.1. Pseudo-Logical Class -- 6.2. Interpretability of Theories -- 6.3. Canonical Expansion, Semantic Expansion, and Other Expansions -- 6.4. Axiomatizable Multirelations and Theories -- 6.5. Free Expansion -- Exercises -- 7/Ultraproduct -- 7.1. Family of Multirelations, Ultrafilter, Induced Logical Equivalence Class; Ultraproduct and Ultrapower; Maximal Case -- 7.2. Logical Equivalence Implies the Existence of Isomorphic Ultrapowers -- 7.3. Characterization of Logical Classes -- 7.4. Normal Ultraproduct; Definitions and Examples -- 7.5. Normal Ultraproducts and Logical Equivalence -- Exercises -- 8/Forcing -- 8.1. Generic Predicate; System: (+)-Forced and (?)-Forced Formulas -- 8.2. Elementary Properties -- 8.3. Forcing with Constraints -- 8.4. General Relation -- 8.5. Forcing and Deduction; Theory Forced by a Generic Predicate -- Exercises -- 9/Isomorphisms and Equivalences in Relation to the Calculus of Infinitely Long Formulas with Finite Quantifiers -- 9.1. ?-Isomorphism and ?-Equivalence -- 9.2. ?-Isomorphism and ?-Equivalence; Karpian Families -- 9.3. Automorphic Rank of a Multirelation -- 9.4. Multirelations with Denumerable Bases and ?-Isomorphisms -- 9.5. ?-Extension and ?-Interpretability -- 9.6. Infinite Logical Calculi and their Relation to Local Isomorphisms and Equivalences -- Proof of Lemmas Needed to Prove J. Robinson’s Theorem -- Closure of a Relation -- References.
    Abstract: This book is addressed primarily to researchers specializing in mathemat­ ical logic. It may also be of interest to students completing a Masters Degree in mathematics and desiring to embark on research in logic, as well as to teachers at universities and high schools, mathematicians in general, or philosophers wishing to gain a more rigorous conception of deductive reasoning. The material stems from lectures read from 1962 to 1968 at the Faculte des Sciences de Paris and since 1969 at the Universities of Provence and Paris-VI. The only prerequisites demanded of the reader are elementary combinatorial theory and set theory. We lay emphasis on the semantic aspect of logic rather than on syntax; in other words, we are concerned with the connection between formulas and the multirelations, or models, which satisfy them. In this context considerable importance attaches to the theory of relations, which yields a novel approach and algebraization of many concepts of logic. The present two-volume edition considerably widens the scope of the original [French] one-volume edition (1967: Relation, Formule logique, Compacite, Completude). The new Volume 1 (1971: Relation et Formule logique) reproduces the old Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 and 8, redivided as follows: Word, formula (Chapter 1), Connection (Chapter 2), Relation, operator (Chapter 3), Free formula (Chapter 4), Logicalformula,denumer­ able-model theorem (L6wenheim-Skolem) (Chapter 5), Completeness theorem (G6del-Herbrand) and Interpolation theorem (Craig-Lyndon) (Chapter 6), Interpretability of relations (Chapter 7).
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 2
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 2
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I. Two-Person Games -- Prisoner’s Dilemma — Recollections and Observations -- Structural Properties and Resolutions of the Prisoners’ Dilemma Game -- On 2×2 Games and Braithwaite’s Arbitration Scheme -- Design and Conduct of Metagame Theoretic Experiments -- Testing Nash’s Solution of the Cooperative Game -- II. N-Person Games -- Test of the Bargaining Set and Kernel Models in Three-person Games -- Test of the Kernel and Two Bargaining Set Models in Four- and Five-person Games -- A Shapley Value for Cooperative Games with Quarrelling -- Coalitions and Payoffs in Three-person Supergames under Multiple-trial Agreements -- The Application of Compromise Solutions to Reporting Games -- ‘General’ Metagames: An Extension of the Metagame Concept.
    Abstract: Game theory could be formally defined as a theory of rational decision in conflict situations. Models of such situations, as they are conceived in game theory, involve (1) a set of decision makers, called players; (2) a set of strategies available to each player; (3) a set of outcomes, each of which is a result of particular choices of strategies made by the players on a given play of the game; and (4) a set of payoffs accorded to each player in each of the possible outcomes. It is assumed that each player is 'individually rational', in the sense that his preference ordering of the outcomes is determined by the order of magnitudes of his (and only his) associated payoffs. Further, a player is rational in the sense that he assumes that every other player is rational in the above sense. The rational player utilizes knowledge of the other players' payoffs in guiding his choice of strategy, because it gives him information about how the other players' choices are guided. Since, in general, the orders of magnitude of the payoffs that accrue to the several players in the several outcomes do not coincide, a game of strategy is a model of a situation involving conflicts of interests.
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 4
    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library 4
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: Pragmatics as Biology or Culture -- From Animal Communication to Human Speech. An Attempt at a Semiotic Analysis of the Problems of the Origins of Language -- Experiments with Everyday Conversation -- Interviewing and Memory -- Fifty-Two Oppositions Between Scientific and Poetic Communication -- Experimental Issues in Sentence Comprehension : Complexity and Segmentation -- Linguistic Structure and Sentence Production -- Information, Decision, and the Scientist.
    Abstract: 'Human Communication' is a field of interest of enormous breadth, being one which has concerned students of many different disciplines. It spans the imagined 'gap' between the 'arts' and the 'sciences', but it forms no unified academic subject. There is no commonly accepted terminology to cover aU aspects. The eight articles comprising this book have been chosen to illustrate something of the diversity yet, at the same time, to be comprehensible to readers from different academic disciplines. They cannot pretend to cover the whole field! Some attempt has been made to present them in an order which represents a continuity of theme, though this is merely an opinion. Most publications of this type form the proceedings of some sympo­ sium, or conference. In this case, however, there has been no such unifying influence, no collaboration, no discussions. The authors have been drawn from a number of different countries. The first article, by John Marshall and Roger Wales (Great Britain) concerns the pragmatic values of communication, starting by considering bird-song and passing to the infinitely more complex 'meaningful' values of human language and pictures. The 'pragmatic aspect' means the usefulness - what does language or bird song do for humans and birds? What adaptation or survival values does it have? These questions are then considered in relation to brain specialisation for representation of experience and cognition.
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    Series Statement: Studien zur Regierungslehre und Internationalen Politik 5
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Political science.
    Abstract: I: Introduction: Problems of Theory-Building in the Study of International Organization -- 1.1 Development of Research and Its Inadequacies -- 1.2 The Quest for New Directions in Theory Building -- 2: Sociocultural Evolution and Sociopolitical Organization -- 2.1 Research on the Changing Scale of Sociopolitical Organization -- 2.2 Sociocultural Evolution — General and Specific Aspects -- 2.3 Evolution of Sociopolitical Organization -- 2.4 Analysis of the Evolutionary Process -- 3: The International Organization Level of Integration and Its Relationship to the Nation State -- 3.1 Structural Means of Integration at the International Organization Level -- 3.2 Interrelations Among Structural Dimensions of International Organization-Building and Patterns of Growth -- 3.3 International Organization and the Nation-State System -- 4: Industrial Civilization and the Causes of International Organization-Building -- 4.1 Theoretical Analysis -- 4.2 Empirical Domain and the Operationalization of Variables -- 4.3 Data Analysis -- 5: International Organization-Building and Integration Within the Global Context -- 5.1 The Dependent Variable: International Integration -- 5.2 Three Theories of International Integration -- 5.3 Data Analysis -- 6: Summary and Conclusions.
    Abstract: unlike the historical-descriptive or legalistic approaches still pervading the majority of publications on international organization, has an implicit (empirical-) theoretical orientation. As a concomitant development, Yalem notes an increasing methodological 6 sophistication among some students of international organization. However, except for some favorable comments on the evolving theory of international community formation, Yalem does not evaluate the contribution of the empirical-theory-cum­ methodology literature to the study of international organization. More recently, Riggs and his associates (1970) and Alger (1960-70; 1970) have taken it upon themselves to do just this. The analysis of the impact of bthavioralism on the study of the United Nations system by Robert Riggs and his associates is a rather devastating indictment. Though demonstrating a concern to present balanced and qualified conclusions from their pemsal of the relevant literature, they summarize their assessment in the following statement: Behavioral research has probably been the most disappointing in the area of its central concern, that of theory-building. The grand theories tend to be heuristic in nature, divorced from the essential data base; and the best-supported proposi­ tions have the natrowest theoretical significance. Despite its aims and pretensions, the approach has not yet produced a coherent set of explanatory propositions to bring order or scientific exactness to the study of international organization or any substantial segment of it (Riggs et al. , 1970: 230).
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    Series Statement: Plan Europe 2000 Project 3 Urbanization, Planning Human Environment in Europe 4
    DDC: 301
    Keywords: Social sciences ; Anthropology
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Criminology
    Abstract: I. Reactions of Society to Crime -- II. Criminology; Its Definition, Nature and Subfields -- III. what is a Crime? Relativity of the Concept -- IV. Multiformity and Classifications -- V. Punishment -- Index of authors.
    Abstract: Didactically, a textbook of criminology should start at the beginning. The learning process, also an emotional process, begins in criminology with the concepts, views, emotions, attitudes and ideas we have regarding crime and criminals. Exploration of these underlying factors is one of the aims of the present book. We can free our thinking only by being aware of the significance of our own feelings and thoughts about a phenomenon like crime. 'That is the basic problem confronting us. In scien­ tific thinking implicit postulates as to the sensus communis, unless recognized and 1 neutralized, grow into idols.' The fight against crime is one example of such an idol. Crimes and criminals exist only by virtue of reactions to certain forms of be­ havior. For this reason this book will begin by examining the reactions of society to crime. Criminology is primarily a science of others than offenders. In this sense I invert criminology. The history of criminology is not so much a history of offenders, 2 as a history of the reactions of those in power.
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    ISBN: 9789401026246
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in The History of Logic and Philosophy 7
    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library 7
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: Translation—Al-Qiy?s Book V -- One On Conditional Propositions and Their Types -- Two On Separative-Conditional Propositions -- Three Onthe Kinds of Combinations in Pure Conditional -- Four On Explaining the Meaning of the Universal, the Particular, the Indefinite and the Singular [Connective-] Conditional Proposition -- Five On the Universal Negative in [Connective-] Conditional Propositions -- Book VI -- One On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective-Conditional Propositions Arranged in Three Figures -- Two On the Syllogisms Compounded of Connective and Separative Propositions -- Three On the Syllogisms Compounded of Separative Propositions -- Four Onthe Syllogisms Compounded of Predicative and Conditional Propositions -- Five On the Three Figures of the Syllogisms Compounded of a Predicative and a Conditional Proposition Where the Predicative Shares [Either Its Subject or Its Predicate] with [the Subject or the Predicate] of the Antecedent (of the Conditional Proposition) -- Six On the Three Figures of the Divided Syllogism -- Book VII -- One On Equipollence and Opposition Between Connective-Conditional Propositions -- Two On the Opposition Between Separative-Conditional Propositions and Separative- and Connective-Conditional Propositions and the State of Their Equipollence -- Three On the Conversion of the Connective Proposition -- Book VIII -- One On the Definition of the Exceptive Syllogism -- Two On the Enumeration of the Exceptive Syllogisms [which have a Separative-Conditional Premiss] -- Book IX -- One On Explaining that Exceptive Syllogisms Cannot Be Completed Except by Conjunctive Syllogisms -- Commentary -- Book V -- Book VI -- Book VII -- Book VIII -- Book IX.
    Abstract: The main purpose of this work is to provide an English translation of and commentary on a recently published Arabic text dealing with con­ ditional propositions and syllogisms. The text is that of A vicenna (Abu represents his views on the subject as they were held throughout his life.
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    Series Statement: Vienna Circle Collection 1
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Philosophy ; Sociology. ; Philosophy and social sciences.
    Abstract: 1. Memories of Otto Neurath -- 1. Otto Neurath’s Parents; the Father’s autobiographical sketch -- 2. Otto Neurath’s Childhood, from autobiographical notes -- 3. University Days, contributed by Marie Neurath -- 4. Military Life, contributed by G. Neumann -- 5. A Teacher of Political Economy, from N. Y. Ben-Gavriel -- 6. Excerpts from Ernst Lakenbacher -- 7. From Wolfgang Schumann -- 8. Autobiographical Excerpts from Otto Neurath -- 9. Munich 1919 and Later, from Ernst Niekisch -- 10. From Otto Neurath’s Son, the Sociologist Paul Neurath -- 11. Heinz Umrath -- 12. From Rudolf Carnap’s Intellectual Autobiography -- 13. Heinrich Neider -- 14. Viktor Kraft -- 15. Karl R. Popper -- 16. 26 September 1924 and After, from Marie Neurath -- 17. Charles Morris -- 18. Marie Neurath: 1940-1945 -- 19. Bilston and A. V. Williams -- 20. Marie Neurath: Otto’s Last Day, 22nd December 1945 -- References -- 2. Six Lessons -- 1. The Little Discourse on the Sanctity of Vocation (by La-Se-Fe) -- 2. The Strange (by La-Se-Fe) -- 3. The Little Discourse on the Virtues (by La-Se-Fe) -- 4. On Delay -- 5. Measure and Number -- 6. Of Masters and Servants -- References -- 3. On the Foundations of the History of Optics -- Reference -- 4. The Problem of the Pleasure Maximum -- References -- 5. Through War Economy to Economy in Kind -- List of Contents -- Preface (April 1919) -- The Theory of War Economy as a Separate Discipline (1913) -- The Converse Taylor System (1917) -- Character and Course of Socialization (1919) -- Utopia as a Social Engineer’s Construction (1919) -- Total Socialization -- References -- 6. Anti-Spengler -- 1. Rejection of Spengler -- 2. Phases of Culture -- 3. The Character of Culture -- 4. Spengler’s Description of the World -- References -- 7. From Vienna Method to Isotype -- 1. The Social and Economic Museum in Vienna (1925) -- 2. Visual Education and the Social and Economic Museum in Vienna (1931) -- 3. Museums of the Future (1933) -- 4. A New Language (1937) -- 5. Visual Education: Humanisation versus Popularisation -- Reference -- 8. Personal Life and Class Struggle -- Introduction: New Principles for Living -- 1. The Coming Man in the Present -- 2. Community Life and Economic Plan -- 3. Eternal Peace -- 4. Youth Associations, School, Vocational Guidance -- 5. Marx and Epicurus -- 6. Turning Away from Metaphysics -- References -- 9. Wissenschaftliche Weltauffassung: Der Wiener Kreis [The Scientific Conception of the World: The Vienna Circle] -- Preface -- 1. The Vienna Circle of the Scientific Conception of the World -- 2. The Scientific World Conception -- 3. Fields of Problems -- 4. Retrospect and Prospect -- References -- 10. Empirical Sociology. The Scientific Content of History and Political Economy -- 1. From Magic to Unified Science -- 2. History -- 3. Political Economy -- 4. Uniting History with Political Economy -- 5. Metaphysical Countercurrents -- 6. Sociology on a Materialist Foundation -- 7. Extrapolation -- 8. Coherence -- 9. Structure of Society -- 10. Sociological Prognosis -- References -- 11. International Planning for Freedom -- 1. Pursuit of Happiness -- 2. Production of Freedom -- 3. International Planning in the Making -- References -- 12. List of Works by Otto Neurath -- Notes: Names and Explanations -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: On the last day of his life, Otto Neurath had given help to a Chinese philosopher who was writing about Schlick. Only an hour before his death he said to me: "Nobody will do such a thing for me." My answer then was: "Never mind, you have Bilston, isn't that better?" There were con­ sultations in new housing schemes, an exhibition, and hopes for a fruitful relationship of longer duration. I did not dream at that time that I would one day work on a book like this. The idea came from Horace M. Kallen, of the New School for Social Research, New York, years later; to encourage me he sent me his selection from William James' writings. Later I met Robert S. Cohen. Carnap had sent him to me with the message: "If you want to find out what my political views were in the twenties and thirties, read Otto Neurath's books and articles of that time; his views were also mine." In this way Robert Cohen became ac­ quainted with Otto Neurath. Even more: he became interested; and when I asked him, would he help me as an editor of an Otto N eurath volume, he agreed at once. In previous years I had already asked a number of Otto Neurath's friends to write down for me what they especially remembered about him.
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    Series Statement: Theory and Decision Library, An International Series in the Philosophy and Methodology of the Social and Behavioral Sciences 3
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    Keywords: Social sciences ; Social sciences Methodology ; Sociology—Methodology.
    Abstract: I: Introduction -- Bertrand Russell’s regulae philosophandi -- II: Formal Science -- Mathematics and Ontology -- Gaps Between Logical Theory and Mathematical Practice -- III: Physics -- Relativity and Covariance -- IV: Biology -- Preliminary Remarks on the Organ-Function Relation -- The Logical Status of the Theory of Natural Selection and Other Evolutionary Controversies -- V: Psychology -- On Confusing ‘Measure’ with ‘Measurement’ in the Methodology of Behavioral Science -- Theoretical Concepts in Neobehavioristic Theories -- VI: Political Science -- Voting Rules and Coordination Problems -- VII: Historiography -- Historical Time and a New Conception of the Historical Sciences -- VIII: Ethics -- Some Problems of Ought-Utilitarianism, Valuation, and Deontic Logic -- IX: Metaphysics -- Human Freedom and 1568 Versions of Determinism and Indeterminism.
    Abstract: The present volume collects some of the talks given at the Bertrand Russell Colloquium on Exact Philosophy, attached to the McGill University Foundations and Philosophy of Science Unit. It also includes a paper, on Bertrand Russell's method of philosophizing, read at the memorial symposium held at Sir Gorge Williams University shortly after the philosopher's death. All the papers appear here for the first time. Unlike many a philosophy of science anthology, this one is not center­ ed on the philosophy of physics. In fact the papers deal with conceptual and, in particular, philosophical problems that pop up in almost every one of the provinces of the vast territory constituted by the foundations, meth­ odology and philosophy of science. A couple of border territories which are in the process of being infiltrated have been added for good measure. The inclusion of papers in the philosophy of formal science and in the philosophies of physics and of biology, in a volume belonging to a series devoted to the philosophy and methodology of the social and behavioral sciences, should raise no eyebrows. Because the sciences of man make use of logic and mathematics, they are interested in questions such as whether the formal sciences have anything to do with reality (rather than with our theories about reality) and whether or not logic has kept up with the practice of mathematicians. These two problems are tackled in Part II, on the philosophy of formal science.
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    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science 9
    Series Statement: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science 9
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Science Philosophy ; Logic ; Science—Philosophy.
    Abstract: One/the Logical Theory of Scientific Knowledge -- Two/Signs -- Three/Terms -- Four/Sentences -- Five/Sentential Logic -- Six/the General Theory of Logical Entailment -- Seven/Formalization of the General Theory of Logical Entailment -- Eight/Subject-Predicate Structures -- Nine/Empirical And Abstract Objects -- Ten/Sentences with Quantifiers -- Eleven/Theory of Quantifiers -- Twelve/Conditional Sentences -- Thirteen/Theory of Terms -- Fourteen/Classes -- Fifteen/ Existential Logic -- Sixteen/ Modal Sentences -- Seventeen/ Relations -- Eighteen/ Physical Entailment -- Nineteen/ Theories -- Twenty/ Logic and Ontology -- Twenty-One/ the Universality of Logic -- Conclusion -- Append -- Proof of the Basic Theorems of the Theory of Logical -- Entailment -- G. A. Smirno -- Independence in the Systems of Logical Entailment -- E. A. Sidorenko -- Some Variants of the Systems of Logical Entailment -- E. A. Sidorenko -- Completeness of the Systems of Logical Entailment -- A. M. Fedina -- Completeness of Systems of Degenerate Entailment and Quasi-Entailment -- L. A. Bobrova -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: Boston Studies in the Philosophy of Science are devoted to symposia, con­ gresses, colloquia, monographs and collected papers on the philosophical foundations of the sciences. It is now our pleasure to include A. A. Zi­ nov'ev's treatise on complex logic among these volumes. Zinov'ev is one of the most creative of modern Soviet logicians, and at the same time an innovative worker on the methodological foundations of science. More­ over, Zinov'ev, although still a developing scholar, has exerted a sub­ stantial and stimulating influence upon his colleagues and students in Moscow and within other philosophical and logical circles of the Soviet Union. Hence it may be helpful, in bringing this present work to an English-reading audience, to review briefly some contemporary Soviet investigations into scientific methodology. During the 1950's, a vigorous new research program in logic was under­ taken, and the initial published work -characteristic of most Soviet pub­ lications in the logic and methodology of the sciences - was a collection of essays, Logical Investigations (Moscow, 1959). Among the authors, in addition to Zinov'ev himself, were the philosophers A. Kol'man and P. V. Tavanec, and the mathematicians and linguists, S. A. Janovskaja, A. S. Esenin-Vol'pin, S. K. Saumjan, G. N. Povarov.
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    Abstract: 1. Coefficients for Dehning The Degree of Similarity Between Objects -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.2. The slope method of Du Mas -- 1.3. Cattell’s rc coefficient of pattern similarity -- 1.4. The D-coefficient -- 1.5. Cohen’s rc coefficient -- 1.6. Zubin’s index and its variants -- 1.7. Hyvarinen’s coefficient -- 1.8. Smirnov’s coefficient -- 1.9. Goodall’s probabilistic similarity index -- 1.10. The distance measure of Williams, a.o. -- 1.11. Conclusion -- 2. Methods Developed for Forming Clusters of Variables or Objects -- 2.1. Introduction -- 2.2. The matrix diagonal method -- 2.3. Methods for re-ordering a socio-matrix -- 2.4. Ramifying linkage analysis -- 2.5. The Gengerelli method -- 2.6. The approximate delimitation method -- 2.7. The B-coefficient of Holzinger and Harman -- 2.8. Iterative factor analysis -- 2.8.1. Wherry and Gaylord -- 2.9. Sneath’s single linkage method -- 2.10. Serensen’s complete linkage method -- 2.11. Wishart’s method -- 2.12. The method of Michener and Sokal -- 2.13. Bridges’ method -- 2.14. The King method -- 2.15. Tryon’s cluster analysis -- 2.16. Conclusion -- Methods of Forming Clusters for Objects -- 3.1. Introduction -- 3.2. Thomdike’s method -- 3.3. The method of Sawrey, Keller and Conger -- 3.4. Ward’s method -- 3.5. Johnson’s hierarchical clustering scheme -- 3.6. Hierarchical representation of similarity matrices by trees -- 3.7. Cluster analysis according to Constantinescu -- 3.8. The method of Rogers and Tanimoto -- 3.9. Hyvarinen’s method -- 3.10. Bonner’s methods -- 3.11. Boolean cluster search method -- 3.12. Gengerelli’s method -- 3.13. Mattson and Dammann’s method -- 3.14. The methods of Edwards, a.o. -- 3.15. Conclusion -- 4. Methods for The Construction of Types Following Mcquitty -- 4.1. Introduction -- 4.2. Agreement analysis -- 4.3. Elementary linkage analysis -- 4.4. Elementary factor analysis -- 4.5. Hierarchical linkage analysis -- 4.6. Hierarchical syndrome analysis -- 4.7. Multiple rank order typal analysis -- 4.8. Classification by reciprocal pairs -- 4.9. Intercolumnar correlational analysis -- 4.10. Nominee-selectee analysis -- 4.11. Multiple agreement analysis -- 4.12. Criticism -- 5. Some Applications -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. Thorndike’s method -- 5.3. The method of Sawrey, Keller and Conger -- 5.4. Ward’s method -- 5.5. McQuitty’s syndrome analysis -- 5.6. Factor analysis -- 5.7. Comparison of the applications -- Conclusion.
    Abstract: During the last years the number of applications of cluster analysis in the social sciences has increased very rapidly. One of the reasons for this is the growing awareness that the assumption of homogeneity implicit in the application of such techniques as factor analysis and scaling is often violated by social science data; another is the increased interest in typolo­ gies and the construction of types. Dr. Bijnen has done an extremely useful job by putting together and evaluating attempts to arrive at better and more elegant techniques of cluster analysis from such diverse fields as the social sciences, biology and medicine. His presentation is very clear and concise, reflecting his intention not to write a 'cookery-book' but a text for scholars who need a reliable guide to pilot them through an extensive and widely scattered literature. Ph. C. Stouthard v Preface This book contains a survey of a number of techniques of clustering analysis. The merits and demerits of the procedures described are also discussed so that the research worker can make an informed choice be­ tween them. These techniques have been published in a very great number of journals which are not all easily accessible to the sociologist. This difficulty is com­ pounded because developments in the different disciplines have occurred almost entirely independently from each other; reference is made only sporadically in a piece of literature to the literature of other disciplines.
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Grammar, Comparative and general ; Logic ; History ; Linguistics.
    Abstract: One The Nature of Logic -- of Part One -- I. Signs and Language -- II. Concerning the formal -- III. Logic and grammar -- IV. Logic and Psychology -- Two On the Grammar of Words, Sentences, and Combinations of Sentences -- of Part Two -- I. General remarks -- II. Kinds of Words -- III. Kinds of Sentence -- IV. Combinations of Sentences.
    Abstract: This book is the first English version of Prolegomena zu einer kritischen Grammatik, published by Julius Springer, Vienna, 1935, as Volume 10 of the Vienna Circle's series Schriften zur wissenschaftlichen Weltauffassung. The prefatory remarks of both editor and author acknowledge the influence ofWittgenstein in a general way. However, in aim and approach, the work differs from Wittgenstein's Philosophische Grammatik (l969). This is indeed based on material going back to 1932, some of which Schachter must have known. On the other hand, the present Prolegomena not only explains the general, philosophical principles to be followed, but in the light of these proceeds to cover the entire range of conventional grammar, showing where that is uncritical. Whether Wittgenstein in his turn knew of Schachter's work has never been explored. Schachter's object is universal grammar. As is natural, the examples in the original are largely drawn from German grammar, with occasional minor excursions into other languages. For English readers, what matters are the general problems of grammar: there is no point in tying these to the linguistic peculiarities of German, let alone a local variety of it. One who can grasp German at that level might as well read the original. The translation is therefore twofold: the text as a whole has been rendered into English, and the entire apparatus of examples has been replaced, as far as this can be done, by illustrations from English grammar, chosen so as to bring out the same kinds of problem as in the original.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 42
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: 1. The Theory of Combinators and the ?-Calculus -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Informal theory of combinators -- 3. Equality and reduction -- 4. The ?-calculus -- 5. Equivalence of the ?-calculus and the theory of combinators -- 6. Set-theoretical interpretations of combinators -- 7. Illative combinatory logic and the paradoxes -- 2. The Church-Rosser Property -- 1. Introduction -- 2. R-reductions -- 3. One-step reduction -- 4. Proof of main result -- 5. Generalization -- 6. Generalized weak reduction -- 3. Combinatory Arithmetic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Combinatory definability -- 3. Fixed-points and numeral sequences -- 4. Undecidability results -- 4. Computable Functionals of Finite Type -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Finite types and terms of finite types -- 3. The equation calculus -- 4. The role of the induction rule -- 5. Soundness of the axioms -- 6. Defining axioms and uniqueness rules -- 7. Reduction rules -- 8. Computability and normal form -- 9. Interpretation of types and terms -- 5. Proofs in the Theory of Species -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Formulas, terms and types -- 3. A-terms and deductions -- 4. The equation calculus -- 5. Reduction and normal form -- 6. The strong normalization theorem -- 7. Interpretation of types and terms -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: The aim of this monograph is to present some of the basic ideas and results in pure combinatory logic and their applications to some topics in proof theory, and also to present some work of my own. Some of the material in chapter 1 and 3 has already appeared in my notes Introduction to Combinatory Logic. It appears here in revised form since the presen­ tation in my notes is inaccurate in several respects. I would like to express my gratitude to Stig Kanger for his invalu­ able advice and encouragement and also for his assistance in a wide variety of matters concerned with my study in Uppsala. I am also in­ debted to Per Martin-USf for many valuable and instructive conversa­ tions. As will be seen in chapter 4 and 5, I also owe much to the work of Dag Prawitz and W. W. Tait. My thanks also to Craig McKay who read the manuscript and made valuable suggestions. I want, however, to emphasize that the shortcomings that no doubt can be found, are my sole responsibility. Uppsala, February 1972.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Historical Library, Texts and Studies in the History of Logic and Philosophy 3
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic
    Abstract: Ernst Mallys Lebensgang und philosophische Entwicklung -- Gegenstandstheorie — Logik — Deontik -- Bemerkungen zu Mallys später Logik -- Bemerkungen zum Text -- Grosses Logik Fragment -- Vorwort -- Formalismus I -- Formalismus II -- Formalismus III -- Briefe -- Grundgesetze des Sollens -- Vorwort -- I. Grundlagen -- II. Nächste Folgerungen -- III. Das Wollen und die Tatsachen -- IV. Das Richtige Wollen -- Bibliographie -- Nachlaß Mally in der Universitätsbibliothek Graz -- Namenverzeichnis.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 34
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    Keywords: Philosophy (General) ; Logic, Symbolic and mathematical ; Logic ; Mathematical logic.
    Abstract: I: The Zermelo/Fraenkel Axioms of Set Theory -- II: Ordinals, Cardinals -- III: The Axiom of Foundation -- IV: The Reflection Principle -- V: The Set of Expressions -- VI: Ordinal Definable Sets. Relative Consistency of the Axiom of Choice -- VII: Fraenkel/Mostowski Models. Relative Consistency of the Negation of the Axiom of Choice (without the Axiom of Foundation) -- VIII: Constructible Sets. Relative Consistency of the Generalized Continuum Hypothesis.
    Abstract: This book presents the classic relative consistency proofs in set theory that are obtained by the device of 'inner models'. Three examples of such models are investigated in Chapters VI, VII, and VIII; the most important of these, the class of constructible sets, leads to G6del's result that the axiom of choice and the continuum hypothesis are consistent with the rest of set theory [1]I. The text thus constitutes an introduction to the results of P. Cohen concerning the independence of these axioms [2], and to many other relative consistency proofs obtained later by Cohen's methods. Chapters I and II introduce the axioms of set theory, and develop such parts of the theory as are indispensable for every relative consistency proof; the method of recursive definition on the ordinals being an import­ ant case in point. Although, more or less deliberately, no proofs have been omitted, the development here will be found to require of the reader a certain facility in naive set theory and in the axiomatic method, such e as should be achieved, for example, in first year graduate work (2 cycle de mathernatiques).
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    Abstract: Deontic Logic: An Introduction -- New Foundations for Ethical Theory -- Some Main Problems of Deontic Logic -- A New System of Deontic Logic -- An Analysis of Some Deontic Logics -- Some Logics of Commitment and Obligation -- Deontic Logic and the Theory of Conditions -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, Monographs on Epistemology, Logic, Methodology, Philosophy of Science, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, and on the Mathematical Methods of Social and Behavioral Sciences 32
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    Abstract: I -- I. The Fundamental Criterion for the Soundness of Arguments -- II. Inferential and Classical Logic -- III. Proof by Contradiction -- IV. The Problem of Locke-Berkeley -- V. On the So-Called ‘Thought Machine’ -- II -- VI. The Paradoxes -- VII. Reason and Intuition -- VIII. Formalized Language and Common Usage -- IX. Considerations about Logical Thought -- X. Constants of Mathematical Thought -- Sources -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects.
    Abstract: It is common to consider an area of science as a system of real or sup­ posed truths which not only continuously extends itself, but also needs periodical revision and therefore tests the inventive capacity of each generation of scholars anew. It sounds highly implausible that a science at one time would be completed, that at that point within its scope there would be no problems left to solve. Indeed, the solution of a scientific problem inevitably raises new questions, so that our eagerness for knowledge will never find lasting satisfaction. Nevertheless there is one science which seems to form an exception to this rule, formal logic, the theory of rigorous argumentation. It seems to have reached the ideal endpoint of every scientific aspiration already very shortly after its inception; using the work of some predecessors, Aristotle, or so it is at least assumed by many, has brought this branch of science once and for all to a conclusion. Of course this doesn't sound that implausible. We apparently know what rigorous argumentation is; otherwise various sciences, in particular pure mathematics, would be completely impossible. And if we know what rigorous argumentation is, then it cannot be difficult to trace once and for all the rules which govern it. The unique subject of formal logic would therefore entail that this science, in variance with the rule which holds for all other sciences, has been able to reach completion at a certain point in history.
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    Abstract: Meaning Relations,Possible Objects, and Possible Worlds -- Existential Presuppositions and Uniqueness Presuppositions -- Some Completeness Results for Modal Predicate Calculi -- Truth-Value Semantics for the Theory of Types -- Probability and Non Standard Logics -- Logic and Truth Value Gaps -- Advice on Modal Logic -- Index of Names.
    Abstract: The essays in this volume are based on addresses presented during a colloquium on free logic, modal logic and related areas held at the University of California at Irvine, in May of 1968. With the single exception of Dagfinn F011esdal, whose revised address is included in a recent issue of Synthese honoring W. V. Quine, all of the speakers at the Irvine colloquium are contributors to this volume. Thanks are due to Professor A. I. Melden, Chairman of the Department of Philosophy at Irvine, for his enthusiastic support of the colloquium, and to Drs. Gordon Brittan and Daniel Dennett for their help in the administration of the colloquium. Finally. I should also like to thank Professor Ralph W. Gerard, Dean of the Graduate Division of the University of California at Irvine, for the financial support which made the colloquium possible. KAREL LAMBERT Laguna Beach, California, 1969 TABLE OF CONTENTS PREFACE V KAREL LAMBERT and BAS C. VAN FRAASSEN/ Meaning Relations, Possible Objects, and Possible Worlds 1 JAAKKO HINTIKKA / Existential Presuppositions and Uniqueness Presuppositions 20 RICHMOND H. THOMASON / Some Completeness Results for Modal Predicate Calculi 56 H. LEBLANC and R. K. MEYER / Truth-Value Semantics for the Theory of Types 77 J. M. VICKERS / Probability and Non Standard Logics 102 PETER W. WOODRUFF / Logic and Truth Value Gaps 121 DANA SCOTT / Advice on Modal Logic 143 INDEX OF NAMES 175 KAREL LAMBER T AND BAS C.
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    ISBN: 9789401032698
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    Pages: Online-Ressource (188p) , digital
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    Series Statement: Synthese Library, A Series of Monographs on the Recent Development of Symbolic Logic, Significs, Sociology of Language, Sociology of Science and of Knowledge, Statistics of Language and Related Fields 4
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    Abstract: I. Purely Implicational Logic -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Deduction-Theoretic Approach -- 3. Semantic Approach -- 4. Axiomatic Approach -- 5. Completeness -- II. Full Sentential Logic -- 6. Introduction -- 7. Introduction of Further Sentential Connectives -- III. Theory of Quantification, Equality, and Functionality -- 8. Notation -- 9. Reduction Schemata -- 10. Axiomatic Method -- 11. Weak Completeness Theorems -- 12. Equality -- 13. Functionality -- IV. Completeness of Elementary Logic -- 14. Introduction -- 15. Quantification Theory -- 16. Theory of Equality and Functionality -- V. The Formalization of Arithmetic and its Limitations -- 17. An Axiom System for Arithmetic -- 18. Syntactic Incompleteness -- 19. Semantic Incompleteness -- 20. Logic of Higher Order -- VI. The Theory of Definition -- 21. Introduction -- 22. Definability of Primitive Notions -- 23. Padoa’s Method -- 24. Definition-Theoretic Incompleteness -- VII. On Machines Which Prove Theorems -- 25. Introduction — Computation and Formal Deduction -- 26. Formal Deduction and Computing Machines -- 27. The Subformula Principle -- 28. Semantic Tableaux and Natural Deduction -- 29. Complications -- 30. Introduction of New Individual Parameters -- 31. Types of Logical Problems -- 32. Concluding Remarks -- Appendix: Supplementary Explanations -- 33. Formal Description of Deduction by Closed Semantic Tableaux -- 34. Independence -- 35. Intuitionistic Logic and Minimal Calculus -- 37. Elementary Logic with Equality and Terms -- 39. Semantic Rules for Quantification Theory -- 40. Deduction-Theoretic Treatment of the Theory of Quantification -- 41. Numerical Computation -- 42. The Interpolation Theorem of Craig-Lyndon -- List of Schemata and Axioms -- (A) Sources -- (B) Recommended Reading -- (C) Periodicals -- Index of Authors and Subjects.
    Abstract: Many philosophers have considered logical reasoning as an inborn ability of mankind and as a distinctive feature in the human mind; but we all know that the distribution of this capacity, or at any rate its development, is very unequal. Few people are able to set up a cogent argument; others are at least able to follow a logical argument and even to detect logical fallacies. Nevertheless, even among educated persons there are many who do not even attain this relatively modest level of development. According to my personal observations, lack of logical ability may be due to various circumstances. In the first place, I mention lack of general intelligence, insufficient power of concentration, and absence of formal education. Secondly, however, I have noticed that many people are unable, or sometimes rather unwilling, to argue ex hypothesi; such persons cannot, or will not, start from premisses which they know or believe to be false or even from premisses whose truth is not, in their opinion, sufficient­ ly warranted. Or, if they agree to start from such premisses, they sooner or later stray away from the argument into attempts first to settle the truth or falsehood of the premisses. Presumably this attitude results either from lack of imagination or from undue moral rectitude. On the other hand, proficiency in logical reasoning is not in itself a guarantee for a clear theoretic insight into the principles and foundations of logic.
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