In the period between the two World Wars, Stanislaw Lesniewski, the Polish logician, created his system of the foundations of mathematics, a system comprising three deductive theories: protothetic, ontology, and mereology. This volume is a collection of the major contributions to protothetic.
This text addresses anyone who wonders, as the author does, about what can be achieved by argumentation and why it can be achieved.
Der vorliegende Band enthalt den Text der dreistundigen Vorlesung, die Husserl unter dem Titel Logik in Gottingen im Wintersemester 1902/1903 gehalten hat.
Relevant to philosophy, law, management, and artificial intelligence, this book explores the applicability of defeasible logic to normative reasoning. The resulting systems provide a better treatment than classical deontic logic does of prima facie obligation, conditional obligation, and priorities of normative principles.
This new edition of Reid's classic philosophical text in the philosophy of mind at long last gives scholars a complete, rigorously edited text of the Inquiry with full critical apparatus in paperback.
Contains essays which represent occasional forays. This work includes essays on matters that happened to evoke the author's interest while others grew out of a chance encounter with a text he deemed to be of particular value.
In this work, the author examines the writings of Lonergan to ascertain his theology of revelation and to place this in the context of current theologies of revelation, Rahner, Pannenberg and Lindbeck.