Comment to Women, Fire, Dangerous things
Lakoff, p. 148 “Let us consider a simple example of a presupposition. (a) I regret that Harry left. (b) I don't regret that Harry left. (c) Harry left. Normally, the…
Som mor logic textbooks
Paul Tomassi - Logic Priest, Graham - Logic, A Very Short Introduction Copi introduction to logic
Ebook: Chris Swoyer – Critical Reasoning A User’s Manual
I am taking a critical thinking class, and a book is available for that class. I'll put it here as well, in case somone wants it. Chris Swoyer - Critical…
John Nolt – Logics, chp. 11-12
I am taking an advanced logic class this semester. Som of the reading material has been posted in our internal system. I'll post it here so that others may get…
Classical predicate logic and empty domains
Classical predicate logic and empty domains
Are contradictions meaningful?
Introduction In this essay I answer the question in the title with a very confident “Yes”, I give multiple arguments for this answer. For the purposes of this essay a…
Kennethamy on boring books and learning
piratefish I'm reading Irving Copi's Introduction to Logic, very boring and not that well written, any suggestions? Just a college level book that gives a comprehensive intro to the topic.…
“garbage in, garbage out” (GIGO) and deduction
Some people sometimes mention that deduction conforms to the GIGO principle. I will here show that in a straightforward interpretation of that, it is false. “Garbage in, garbage out” is…
Ben Burgis on the Liar paradox and other related paradoxes
Give it a read. It is divided into 4 parts: My Take on the Liar Paradox (Part I of IV) My Take on the Liar Paradox (Part II of IV)…
The contagiosity of meaninglessness – formalised for propositional logic
In an earlier essay I mentioned that that meaninglessness is contagious with respect to sentences. One can pretty easily formulate the principle in normal english - if a sentence is…