
Truth-Functional Logic
J. A. Faris(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 31. March 2021
Book
Paperback/Softback
130 pages
978-0-367-42612-5 (ISBN)
Description
Originally published in 1962. This book gives an account of the concepts and methods of a basic part of logic. In chapter I elementary ideas, including those of truth-functional argument and truth-functional validity, are explained. Chapter II begins with a more comprehensive account of truth-functionality; the leading characteristics of the most important monadic and dyadic truth-functions are described, and the different notations in use are set forth. The main part of the book describes and explains three different methods of testing truth-functional aguments and agument forms for validity: the truthtable method, the deductive method and the method of normal forms; for the benefit mainly of readers who have not acquired in one way or another a general facility in the manipulation of symbols some of the procedures have been described in rather more detail than is common in texts of this kind. In the final chapter the author discusses and rejects the view, based largely on the so called paradoxes of material implication, that truth-functional logic is not applicable in any really important way to arguments of ordinary discourse.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
General, Postgraduate, and Undergraduate
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 129 mm
Thickness: 7 mm
Weight
149 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-367-42612-5 (9780367426125)
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Content
1. Introduction 2. Truth-functions 3. The Truth-Table Method 4. The Deductive Method 5. Part I: Normal Forms; Part II: Applicability and Limitations of Truth-Functional Logic