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Elements of logical reasoning

"Some of our earliest experiences of the conclusive force of an argument come from school mathematics: faced with a mathematical proof, we cannot deny the conclusion once the premisses have been accepted. Behind such arguments lies a more general pattern of 'demonstrative arguments' t...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Plato, Jan Von (Author)
Format: Printed Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2013
Edition:1st Edition
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Table of Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: Part I. First Steps in Logical Reasoning: 1. Starting points; 2. Rules of proof; 3. Natural deduction; 4. Proof search; 5. Classical natural deduction; 6. Proof search in classical logic; 7. The semantics of propositional logic; Part II. Logical Reasoning with the Quantifiers: 8. The quantifiers; 9. Derivations in predicate logic; 10. The semantics of predicate logic; Part III. Beyond Pure Logic: 11. Equality and axiomatic theories; 12. Elements of the proof theory of arithmetic; Part IV. Complementary Topics: 13. Normalization and cut elimination; 14. Deductive machinery from Aristotle to Heyting.