Logic: a brief insight

Description

Priest explores the philosophical roots of logic, explaining how modern formal logic deals with issues ranging from the existence of God and the reality of time to paradoxes of probability and decision theory. Along the way, Priest lays out the basics of formal logic in simple, nontechnical terms.;Validity : what follows from what? -- Truth functions, or not -- Names and quantifiers : is nothing something? -- Descriptions and existence : did the greeks worship Zeus? -- Self-reference : what is this chapter about? -- Necessity and possibility : what will be must be? -- Conditionals: what's in an if? -- The future and the past : is time real?? -- Identity and change : is anything ever the same? -- Vaguenes : how do you stop sliding down a slippery slope? -- Probability : the strange case of the missing reference class? -- Inverse probability : you can't be indifferent about it! -- Decision theory : great expectations? -- A little history and some further reading?