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Figuring It Out : Logic Diagrams / George Englebretsen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Philosophical Analysis ; 78Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2019]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (XIV, 220 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110621631
  • 9783110621846
  • 9783110624458
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 160.223 23
LOC classification:
  • BC136 .E457 2020
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Seeing Reason -- 2. Some Historical Figures -- 3. Lines of Reason -- 4. Holding the Line -- 5. Linear Diagrams and Non-Classical Quantifiers -- 6. Drawing Conclusions: Get Better Diagrams -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index
Summary: Many systems of logic diagrams have been offered both historically and more recently. Each of them has clear limitations. An original alternative system is offered here. It is simpler, more natural, and more expressively and inferentially powerful. It can be used to analyze not only syllogisms but arguments involving relational terms and unanalyzed statement terms.Summary: The book begins with an extensive survey of the history of logic diagrams, including looking at possible diagrams from Aristotle, the development of both linear and closed figure diagrams by Leibniz, Lambert, Euler, Venn’s new system, Peirce’s Existential Graphs, and Frege’s two-dimensional notation as a kind of logic diagram system. During most of the 20th century, there was little regard for efforts to construct logic diagrams. However, since the 1980s there has been an increasing interest in such diagrams. Ever larger numbers of philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, computational scientists, and cognitive scientists have turned their attention to building, analyzing, using, or exploring in other ways systems of logic diagrams. The system offered here makes use of line segments and points and it enjoys a number of important advantages: it is simple, natural, and both expressively and inferentially powerful. It can be used to analyze syllogisms (including those involving relational terms) and arguments involving unanalyzed statements. Understanding such a system can shed valuable light on how ordinary people naturally reason.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Preface -- 1. Introduction: Seeing Reason -- 2. Some Historical Figures -- 3. Lines of Reason -- 4. Holding the Line -- 5. Linear Diagrams and Non-Classical Quantifiers -- 6. Drawing Conclusions: Get Better Diagrams -- Bibliography and Further Reading -- Index

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Many systems of logic diagrams have been offered both historically and more recently. Each of them has clear limitations. An original alternative system is offered here. It is simpler, more natural, and more expressively and inferentially powerful. It can be used to analyze not only syllogisms but arguments involving relational terms and unanalyzed statement terms.

The book begins with an extensive survey of the history of logic diagrams, including looking at possible diagrams from Aristotle, the development of both linear and closed figure diagrams by Leibniz, Lambert, Euler, Venn’s new system, Peirce’s Existential Graphs, and Frege’s two-dimensional notation as a kind of logic diagram system. During most of the 20th century, there was little regard for efforts to construct logic diagrams. However, since the 1980s there has been an increasing interest in such diagrams. Ever larger numbers of philosophers, logicians, mathematicians, computational scientists, and cognitive scientists have turned their attention to building, analyzing, using, or exploring in other ways systems of logic diagrams. The system offered here makes use of line segments and points and it enjoys a number of important advantages: it is simple, natural, and both expressively and inferentially powerful. It can be used to analyze syllogisms (including those involving relational terms) and arguments involving unanalyzed statements. Understanding such a system can shed valuable light on how ordinary people naturally reason.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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