Precision, Language and Logic is a three-part book that first presents ideas in basic logic and clear thinking. Part II is concerned with the application of logic and other methods of precision to everyday discourse and also to the sciences and other disciplines such as law and economics. The last part of the book discusses a formalization of the sciences.
This book will be useful as a text to guide people in the main ingredients of clear thinking and logical discussion.
Inhalt
Foreword
Part I Some Basic Logic
Chapter 1 A Background to Logic
Chapter 2 Propositions and the Syllogism
Chapter 3 First Steps in Symbolic Logic
Chapter 4 The Propositional Calculus
Chapter 5 Properties of the Propositional Calculus
Chapter 6 The Functional and Predicate Calculus
Part II Logic, Probability and Philosophy
Chapter 7 Scientific Method
Chapter 8 Induction and Hypothesis Formation
Chapter 9 Probability and Statistics
Chapter 10 Language and Philosophy
Chapter 11 Epistemology
Chapter 12 A Pragmatic Theory of Behavior
Part III Formalization
Chapter 13 Applied Logic
Chapter 14 Formalization
Chapter 15 Automata Theory
Chapter 16 A Neural Net Approach to Pragmatic Theory
Chapter 17 Hierarchical Nets
References
Additional References
Author Index
Subject Index