What Is Logic?
What is logic? Textbooks typically introduce the subject as the science of consequence. Thus in an early section of his estimable primer-a section entitled "What Logic Is About"-we find Benson Mates explaining that logic investigates the relation of consequence that holds between the premi...
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| Published in | Truth, Reference and Realism Vol. 1; pp. 125 - 175 |
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Central European University Press
2011
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| Abstract | What is logic? Textbooks typically introduce the subject as the science of consequence. Thus in an early section of his estimable primer-a section entitled "What Logic Is About"-we find Benson Mates explaining that
logic investigates the relation of consequence that holds between the premises and the conclusion of a sound argument. An argument is said to be sound (correct, valid) if its conclusion follows from or is a consequence of its premises; otherwise it is unsound.1 (Mates 1965, 2) |
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| AbstractList | What is logic? Textbooks typically introduce the subject as the science of consequence. Thus in an early section of his estimable primer—a section entitled “What Logic Is About”—we find Benson Mates explaining that
logic investigates the relation of consequence that holds between the premises and the conclusion of a sound argument. An argument is said to be sound (correct, valid) if its conclusion follows from or is a consequence of its premises; otherwise it is unsound.¹ (Mates 1965, 2)
In a similar spirit, E.J. Lemmon begins Beginning Logic by writing that logic's main concern is with the soundness What is logic? Textbooks typically introduce the subject as the science of consequence. Thus in an early section of his estimable primer-a section entitled "What Logic Is About"-we find Benson Mates explaining that logic investigates the relation of consequence that holds between the premises and the conclusion of a sound argument. An argument is said to be sound (correct, valid) if its conclusion follows from or is a consequence of its premises; otherwise it is unsound.1 (Mates 1965, 2) |
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