Before logic / Richard Mason.

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Mason, Richard, 1948-2006

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TextSeries: SUNY series in philosophyPublication details: Albany : State University of New York Press, �2000.Description: 1 online resource (153 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

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0585301891
9780585301891

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Before logic.DDC classification:

160 21

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BC50 .M36 2000eb

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Contents:

What can be -- The truth in what we say -- What must be so -- Talking about things -- Getting around language -- "Logic must take care of itself."

Review: "Must logic come first? Are philosophical problems really logical? Must we think logically to think at all? Richard Mason's case is that too much comes before logic - too many choices and too much history. Logic has been formed by choices made by philosophers, not just as a subject of study, but in terms of what has mattered: the problems, and the possible solutions. Before Logic contains case studies of crucial choices: on the formation of logical possibility, on truth, on the explanation of necessity, on essentialism, and on the location of logic. For readers with interests in analytical or continental philosophy or in logic, this book shows why and how history matters to logic."--Jacket.

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Includes bibliographical references (pages 141-149) and index.

"Must logic come first? Are philosophical problems really logical? Must we think logically to think at all? Richard Mason's case is that too much comes before logic - too many choices and too much history. Logic has been formed by choices made by philosophers, not just as a subject of study, but in terms of what has mattered: the problems, and the possible solutions. Before Logic contains case studies of crucial choices: on the formation of logical possibility, on truth, on the explanation of necessity, on essentialism, and on the location of logic. For readers with interests in analytical or continental philosophy or in logic, this book shows why and how history matters to logic."--Jacket.

What can be -- The truth in what we say -- What must be so -- Talking about things -- Getting around language -- "Logic must take care of itself."

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