Sentence examples for accounts of logic from inspiring English sources

Here, they saw the principle advantage over previous, traditional, empiricist accounts of logic and mathematics.

Thus the objections which Bradley deployed against misleading accounts of logic now begin to pose a threat against logic itself by eroding the integrity of the judgments which go into its inferences, and he ends Principles in a sceptical vein by suggesting that no judgment is ever really true nor any inference fully valid.

It was only in 1929 that he returned to Cambridge to resume his philosophical vocation, after having been exposed to discussions on the philosophy of mathematics and science with members of the Vienna Circle, whose conception of logical empiricism was indebted to his Tractatus account of logic as tautologous, and his philosophy as concerned with logical syntax.

As he reasonably points out, logic comprises the rules of correct thinking, and the principles of logic are known to us as conscious representations;[86] thinking and consciousness are objects of psychological inquiry; therefore any account of logic must include a psychological description of the genesis of logical principles (L I: 13).

At what point do we call the ballistic protection game on account of logic?

Mill's empiricist thesis, that all necessity is verbal, has important consequences for his account of logic.

Another application to the graph-theoretic account of logic is the definition of an asymmetric combination technique called importing logics (cf. Rasga et al. 2011).

Thomas does not advocate a kind of proto-psychological account of logic as one might see in various 19th century accounts.

Mill was not alone in having difficulty with the logic of such terms; it was only with the work of Bertrand Russell on definite descriptions that these problems were solved in a way that could fit with an empiricist account of logic and of meaning.

The respect for history also lay behind Łukasiewicz's groundbreaking studies in the history of logic, notably his accounts of Stoic propositional logic and Aristotle's syllogistic.

See the article Independence Friendly Logic and Mann, Sandu and Sevenster 2011 for fuller accounts of this logic.