The Square of Opposition
A General Framework for Cognition
The square of opposition is a simple geometrical figure expressing some fundamental ideas about cognition. It is based on Aristotle's philosophy and has been fascinating people for two thousand years. The three notions of opposition presented in the square can be applied to analyze and understand such diverse subjects as reasoning about mathematical objects, perceptions of reality, speech acts, moral reasoning and reasoning about possibility. This book presents recent research papers dealing with the history and philosophy of the square, new diagrammatic and mathematical developments arising from it, and its applications to the fields of ling…
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Weitere Autoren: Payette, Gillman (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-0343-0537-2
- EAN: 9783034305372
- Produktnummer: 19466673
- Verlag: Lang, Peter
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 503 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.7 cm x D3.2 cm 820 g
- Abbildungen: s/w und f
- Gewicht: 820
Über den Autor
Jean-Yves Beziau is Professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He has a PhD in philosophy and a PhD in mathematical logic. He has worked in France, Poland, Brazil, Switzerland and USA (Stanford and UCLA). His main line of investigation is universal logic, a general theory of logical structures. He is Editor-in-Chief of the journal Logica Universalis. Gillman Payette is a doctoral student at the University of Calgary, Alberta, Canada. His work is focused primarily on applications of logic in the social sciences, preservationist and paraconsistent logic, and the foundations of logical consequence. He is a Killam and Joseph-Armand Bombardier SSHRCC fellow.
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