British logic in the nineteenth century
The present volume of the Handbook of the History of Logic is designed to establish 19th century Britain as a substantial force in logic, developing new ideas, some of which would be overtaken by, and other that would anticipate, the century's later capitulation to the mathematization of logic. British Logic in the Nineteenth Century is indispensable reading and a definitive research resource for anyone with an interest in the history of logic.- Detailed and comprehensive chapters covering the entire range of modal logic - Contains the latest scholarly discove
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9781281144935, 9786611144937, 9780080557014, 1281144932, 6611144935, 0080557015
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Front Cover; British Logic in the Nineteenth Century; Copyright Page; Contents; Preface; List of Contributors; Chapter 1. Bentham's Logic; Chapter 2. Coleridge's Logic; Chapter 3. Richard Whately and Logical Theory; Chapter 4. The Logic of Sir William Hamilton: Tunnelling through Sand to Place the Keystone in the Aristotelic Arch; Chapter 5. ""The Whole Box of Tools"": William Whewell and the Logic of Induction; Chapter 6. The Logic of John Stuart Mill; Chapter 7. De Morgan's Logic Chapter 9. French 'Logique' and British 'Logic': On the Origins of Augustus de Morgan's Early Logical Enquiries, 1805-1835Chapter 10. Lewis Carroll's Logic; Chapter 11. John Venn and Logical Theory; Chapter 12. William Stanley Jevons and the Substitution of Similars; Chapter 13. Hugh McColl and the Birth of Logical Pluralism; Chapter 14. The Idealists; Chapter 15. Bradley's Logic; Index
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