quantumbooks

Author: Bennett, Deborah J.
Isbn 13: 9780393326925
ISBN: 0393326926
Pub Date: Jul 1, 2005
Publisher: W. W. Norton
Shipping Weight: 0.50 pounds
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The author covers the ancient Greeks (the Greek word logos means knowledge), then such giants as Leibniz and Newton, who helped rescue the study of logic from classical languages, finally modern mathematicians and philosophers like Whitehead and Russell. In discussing topics like syllogisms, she uses tables and diagrams that shouldn't daunt anyone with a firm foundation in high school algebra and geometry. The book's most interesting chapter explains why if is perhaps the most problematical word in any verbal proposition.
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