| Contents in brief:(As listed in the 2005 edition.) Abstract Part I – Logic Notes 1. About the Laws of Thought 2. About Induction 3. About Words 4. About Formal Logic 5. About Paradoxes 6. About “Modern Logic” 7. About Cognitive Development 8. About Causal Logic 9. ABOUT NEGATION Part II – More Logic Notes and Essays 1. J. S. MILL’S METHODS 2. Addenda to Judaic Logic 3. Diagrams for Judaic Logic 4. Jewish Logic: A Brief History and Evaluation 5. Islamic Logic 6. Logical Aspects of Foucault’s “Archeology“. 7. Comments on 3 chapters of Foucault 8. BOLZANO’S SEMANTICS CONCEPTS | Contents in detail: ABSTRACT 1. ABOUT THE LAWS OF THOUGHT Dialectical Reasoning Genesis of Axioms Paradoxical Propositions Contradiction Varieties of Contradiction Double Standards Special Status of the Laws Motors of Rational Thought Cogito, Ergo Sum Concerning Identity
2. ABOUT INDUCTION Critical thought Misappropriation Evidence Detail Seems and Is Adduction Pertinence Trial and Error Field Specific The Human Factor Theorizing Approaching Reality Experiment The Uncertainty Principle Epistemic Ethics Phenomenology Appearance, Reality and Illusion Existence and Non-existence Philosophy and Religion
3. ABOUT WORDS Meaning Traditional Distinctions Logic and Linguistics Dialogue Poles of Duality
4. ABOUT FORMAL LOGIC Form and Content Singular Subject Special Forms Fuzzy Logic Added Determinants Relational Expressions Disjunction Material and Strict Implication Nesting of Hypotheticals Compound Theses Validation of Nesting Brackets in Logic
5. ABOUT PARADOXES On the Liar Paradox Making No Claim Nagarjuna’s Trickery Non-apprehension of Non-things A Formal Impossibility The Analytic/Synthetic Dichotomy On the Russell Paradox An Illustration of Russell’s On Grelling’s Paradox
6. ABOUT “MODERN LOGIC” A School of Logicians Alleged New Methods Non-Aristotelian “Logic” Postmodern “Logic” Mere Manipulations Thinking Reflexively Conventional Logic Absolute Truths Untouched by Consciousness Logical Atomism Exclusive Judgments Empty Terms
7. ABOUT COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT The Fourth R Empirical Studies Piaget’s Model Piaget’s Experiments Lines of Inquiry Experimental Techniques Private Languages
8. ABOUT CAUSAL LOGIC Induction of Causatives True of All Opposites Extensional to Natural Hume’s Denials Hume’s Mentalism Constant Conjunction Billiard Balls Against Kant on Freewill Alleged Influences Analogical Inferences
9. ABOUT NEGATION Negation in Adduction Positive and Negative Phenomena Positive Experience Precedes Negation Negation is an Intention Formal Consequences Negation and the Laws Of Thought Pure Experience Consistency is Natural Status of the Logic of Causation Zero, One and More Psychology of Negation Negation in Meditation
*. J. S. MILL’S METHODS Preamble The Joint Method of Agreement and Difference The Method of Agreement The Method of Difference The Method of Residues The Method of Concomitant Variations
Concluding Remarks * ADDENDA TO JUDAIC LOGIC *. DIAGRAMS FOR JUDAIC LOGIC 10. JEWISH LOGIC: A BRIEF HISTORY AND EVALUATION Introduction Traditional Claims and Historical Record Comparisons and Assessments
11. ISLAMIC LOGIC The Structure of Islamic Law Islamic Hermeneutics Interpreters
12. LOGICAL ASPECTS OF FOUCAULT’S ARCHEOLOGY Slippery Catch Him Healing
13. COMMENTS ON 3 CHAPTERS OF FOUCAULT Las Meninas The Prose of the World Representing
14. BOLZANO’S SEMANTICS CONCEPTS “Propositions-in-Themselves” “Ideas-in-Themselves” The Issue of Time
The section headings in chapters 1-9 have been newly added in the 2008 reprint for the reader’s convenience. * Three chapters have been omitted from the 2008 reprint: “J. S. Mill’s Methods” (2005), which has been reprinted withThe Logic of Causation; and “Addenda toJudaic Logic”(1997-2005) and “Diagrams forJudaic Logic”(2005), which have been reprinted withJudaic Logic. The remaining last chapters have been renumbered 10-14. |
