RUMINATIONS

Abstract

Ruminationsis a collection of sundry notes and essays on Logic. These complement and enrich the author’s past writings, further analyzing or reviewing certain issues.

Among the many topics covered are:

• the importance of the laws of thought, and how they are applied using the logic of paradox;
• details of formal logic, including some important new insights on the nesting, merger and splitting up of hypothetical propositions;
• details of causal logic, including analogical reasoning from cause to cause;
• a phenomenological analysis of negation.

Additionally, this volume is used to publish a number of notes and essays previously only posted in the Internet sitewww.TheLogician.net, including:

• a thoroughly revised version of an essay onJ.S. Mill’s Methods;
• various addenda and diagrams forJudaic Logic, as well as a historical essay;
• a brief analysis of Islamic logic.