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Author Rumfitt, Ian, author

Title The boundary stones of thought : an essay in the philosophy of logic / Ian Rumfitt
Edition First edition
Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2015

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Contents The nature of logic. Logical laws ; Logical necessity -- Five attacks on classical logic. The argument of Dummett's 'truth' ; The verificationist attack on classical logic ; Possibilities ; Challenges from the infinite and from the infinitesimal ; The challenge from vagueness ; On the use of classical logic in set theory ; Conclusion
Summary Classical logic has been attacked by adherents of rival, anti-realist logical systems: Ian Rumfitt comes to its defence. He considers the nature of logic, and how to arbitrate between different logics. He argues that classical logic may dispense with the principle of bivalence, and may thus be liberated from the dead hand of classical semantics
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from home page (viewed on May 26, 2015)
Subject Logic.
PHILOSOPHY -- Logic.
Logic
Logique -- Philosophie.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191798016
0191798010
9780191053351
019105335X