| Description |
128 pages : illustrations ; 18 cm. |
| Series |
Very short introductions ; 29 |
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Very short introductions ; 29.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 121-122) and indexes. |
| Contents |
1. Validity : what follows from what? -- 2. Truth functions : or not? -- 3. Names and quantifiers : is nothing something? -- 4. Descriptions and existence : did the Greeks worship Zeus? -- 5. Self-reference : what is this chapter about? -- 6. Necessity and possibility : what will be must be? -- 7. Conditionals : what's in an if? -- 8. The future and the past : is time real? -- 9. Identity and change : is anything ever the same? -- 10. Vagueness :how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope? -- 11. Probability : the strange case of the missing reference class -- 12. Inverse probability : you can't be indifferent about it -- 13. Decision theory : great expectations -- 14. A little history and some further reading. |
| Subject |
Logic.
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| ISBN |
0192893203 |
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