Tracking reason : proof, consequence, and truth /

When ordinary people - mathematicians among them - take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. This book investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues invented by...

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Proof, consequence, and truth
1. Verfasser:
Azzouni, Jody
Format:
Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:
Englisch
Veröffentlicht:
New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2006]
Zusammenfassung:
When ordinary people - mathematicians among them - take something to follow (deductively) from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. This book investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues invented by logicians.
Umfang:
1 online resource (vi, 248 pages)
Anmerkungen:
Description based upon print version of record.
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English
Bibliografie:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
0-19-029314-4
0-19-970808-8
0-19-537069-4
1-280-56057-6
1-4237-6190-1
0-19-534354-9
1-60256-682-8
Schlagworte:
Proof theory.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
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