Logic. The basic aspects [1st. ed.] 9715540438

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Logic. The basic aspects [1st. ed.]
 9715540438

Table of contents :
Introduction
I. Logic as a science (I)
II. Logic as a science (II)
Part I. The logic of concepts
I. Concepts and abstraction
II. The universality of concepts and the singularity of real beings
III. Language as the expression of thought
IV. The analogical meaning of concepts
V. Predicables, the logical modes of the universals
VI. Definition, division and opposition of concepts
Part II. The logic of the proposition
I. The proposition in general
II. Kinds of propositions
Part III. The logic of reasoning
I. General characteristic of reasoning
II. Analysis of reasoning: the syllogism
III. Induction
IV. Fallacies
Part IV. Scientific Knowledge
I. Nature and object of scientific knowledge
II. Philosophy and the particular sciences
III. Order of the sciences
IV. The scientific method
V. The principles of scientific knowledge

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