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* Graham Priest is a highly-respected logician, best known for his unorthodox views on contradictions and his work in non-standard logic
* Explains the basics of modern formal logic in non-technical terms
* A central aim is to show how logic and the rest of philosophy interrelate
* Covers non-classical as well as classical logic most other introductory books dont
* Contains a problem for each chapter so that readers can test their understanding, and a glossary of technical terms
* Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over two million copies sold worldwide
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, 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, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.
* Explains the basics of modern formal logic in non-technical terms
* A central aim is to show how logic and the rest of philosophy interrelate
* Covers non-classical as well as classical logic most other introductory books dont
* Contains a problem for each chapter so that readers can test their understanding, and a glossary of technical terms
* Part of the bestselling Very Short Introductions series - over two million copies sold worldwide
Logic is often perceived as having little to do with the rest of philosophy, and even less to do with real life. In this lively and accessible introduction, Graham Priest shows how wrong this conception is. He explores the philosophical roots of the subject, 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, the basics of formal logic are explained in simple, non-technical terms, showing that logic is a powerful and exciting part of modern philosophy.
Readership: Students taking or considering taking undergraduate-level logic or mathematics courses; general readers curious about what logic is, and how it relates to the rest of philosophy. Also of interest to students of computer science, cognitive science, and linguistics.
著者について
Graham Priest is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Queensland. He has also held positions at the University of St Andrews and the University of Western Australia. He is the author of In Contradiction, Beyond the Limits of Thought, and over 100 articles in philosophy books and journals. He has held visiting positions in universities in Australia, the United Kingdom, the United States, Russia, and Brazil, and is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Humanities.
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非古典論理の研究で超有名な、オーストラリアの論理学者の書いた小さな論理学の入門書。論理学そのものの入門書というよりは、論理学を使うと何ができるのかということに対する入門書といった方がいいかもしれない。
まず初めに一階述語論理の基本的発想を紹介した後、自己言及と嘘つきパラドクス（５章）、様相論理と決定論（６章）、時制論理とマクタガートのパラドクス（８章）、同一性言明と変化（９章）、曖昧さと自然神学的な神の存在証明（１０・１１章）、そして意志決定理論と賭けによる信仰（１２章）まで、実に広範囲に及ぶ。
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まず初めに一階述語論理の基本的発想を紹介した後、自己言及と嘘つきパラドクス（５章）、様相論理と決定論（６章）、時制論理とマクタガートのパラドクス（８章）、同一性言明と変化（９章）、曖昧さと自然神学的な神の存在証明（１０・１１章）、そして意志決定理論と賭けによる信仰（１２章）まで、実に広範囲に及ぶ。
スタンスは一貫して、日常言語を用いていては不明瞭だったり妥当ではなかったりする推論を形式論理を用いるといかに整理できるかを示す、という風になっている。そのため、哲学的考察にも溢れていて楽しい。個人的には通常の小さな論理学入門書では扱われることのない、帰納論理や確率論について大きく扱われ、刺激を受けた。
英文はやさしい。時に見慣れない単語が出てくるが、構文自体はいつも明晰。時間のあるときに手元に置いて興味のあるところからぱらぱら見るのがいい。
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記号は多少使われているが、定義をちゃんと書いてあるし、基礎知識は全く前提とされていない。又、英語も簡潔明瞭な文体で、こんなにもシンプルに論理学に関わる哲学的問題を紹介できるのか！と少し感動した程。
いわゆる形式論理学なんて現実には何の役にも立たないのではないか、とお考えの向きにはぜひ一読をお薦めする。むしろ、本書程度の論理学の知識も持たずして哲学の勉強をしようとすれば、大きく無駄足を踏むのことになりかねないのでは？
非常にコンパクトで堅固な造本と美しい装丁で、通勤電車内で読むのにも好適。
記号は多少使われているが、定義をちゃんと書いてあるし、基礎知識は全く前提とされていない。又、英語も簡潔明瞭な文体で、こんなにもシンプルに論理学に関わる哲学的問題を紹介できるのか！と少し感動した程。
いわゆる形式論理学なんて現実には何の役にも立たないのではないか、とお考えの向きにはぜひ一読をお薦めする。むしろ、本書程度の論理学の知識も持たずして哲学の勉強をしようとすれば、大きく無駄足を踏むのことになりかねないのでは？
非常にコンパクトで堅固な造本と美しい装丁で、通勤電車内で読むのにも好適。
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Superb, comprehensive Intro to Logic
2002/1/25
形式:ペーパーバック
I am a novice in logic. But I need logic--some of it sophisticated--to understand a philosophy paper I am working with.
I found Graham Priestly's Logic, a Very Short Introduction superb and immensely helpful. I searched full-length texts, but I knew I would never wade through them. I didn't want to take the time for a college course. I searched the Web and found some excellent material, ... However, Graham's book proved far and away the simplest and best.
Here are the advantages I found. Some advantages are simply due to the brevity of the book that suited my needs, but some stand out in any context.
1. The book goes into topics early-truth tables and modal logic, for example. Copi's Introduction to Logic, while undoubtedly very good, and used in many logic courses, does not get to truth tables until Chapter 10 while Priest starts using truth tables in Chapter 2, page 9. Another text, Stephan Layman's The Power of Logic, did not get to modal logic until about page 450. Graham starts the topic in chapter 6, page 38, about 1/3 of the way through his book.
2. The book had every single logic symbol that I needed. I found no one book, full-length text or web source that did this. Equally important every symbol was used and discussed somewhere in the book. Some symbols were missing or introduced very late in other books.
3. Graham doesn't spoon feed the reader with great detail like other books, nor employ elaborate introduction to a topic.
4. Logic, a Very Short Introduction is about 10% the length of other books I looked at (Copi & Layman were about 550-650 pages, for example)-considering Graham's page size is probably that of a normal book. Other books cost roughly 3 to 8 as much.
5. Graham has a very clear, engaging, and often humorous, style. The book is very well organized and written.
6. It is easy to get into meat quickly.
7. In a little over 100 pages, Priest uses a given chapter's logic to analyze a variant form of several classical philosophical questions. For example: the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God, fatalism, the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God, the Argument from Design for God's existence, etc.
8. The book has an unusual amount of supplemental material-brief history of logic, glossary, list of symbols, problems ..., bibliography, general index and index of names.
9. Every chapter ends with a simple summary of the ideas it covers. There were numerous figures.
10. There were 13 illustrations ranging from cartoons, to art, to famous philosophers.
Of course, this is a short survey and so no one should think that any one topic is covered in depth. Breadth rather than depth is the book's objective.
The book could be used by:
1. Self learners
2. People taking a logic course who want a quick overview or supplement
3. People, who would like rudimentary familiarity with logic for their work, but do not need a college course or a full-length logic book.
...
I found Graham Priestly's Logic, a Very Short Introduction superb and immensely helpful. I searched full-length texts, but I knew I would never wade through them. I didn't want to take the time for a college course. I searched the Web and found some excellent material, ... However, Graham's book proved far and away the simplest and best.
Here are the advantages I found. Some advantages are simply due to the brevity of the book that suited my needs, but some stand out in any context.
1. The book goes into topics early-truth tables and modal logic, for example. Copi's Introduction to Logic, while undoubtedly very good, and used in many logic courses, does not get to truth tables until Chapter 10 while Priest starts using truth tables in Chapter 2, page 9. Another text, Stephan Layman's The Power of Logic, did not get to modal logic until about page 450. Graham starts the topic in chapter 6, page 38, about 1/3 of the way through his book.
2. The book had every single logic symbol that I needed. I found no one book, full-length text or web source that did this. Equally important every symbol was used and discussed somewhere in the book. Some symbols were missing or introduced very late in other books.
3. Graham doesn't spoon feed the reader with great detail like other books, nor employ elaborate introduction to a topic.
4. Logic, a Very Short Introduction is about 10% the length of other books I looked at (Copi & Layman were about 550-650 pages, for example)-considering Graham's page size is probably that of a normal book. Other books cost roughly 3 to 8 as much.
5. Graham has a very clear, engaging, and often humorous, style. The book is very well organized and written.
6. It is easy to get into meat quickly.
7. In a little over 100 pages, Priest uses a given chapter's logic to analyze a variant form of several classical philosophical questions. For example: the Cosmological Argument for the Existence of God, fatalism, the Ontological Argument for the Existence of God, the Argument from Design for God's existence, etc.
8. The book has an unusual amount of supplemental material-brief history of logic, glossary, list of symbols, problems ..., bibliography, general index and index of names.
9. Every chapter ends with a simple summary of the ideas it covers. There were numerous figures.
10. There were 13 illustrations ranging from cartoons, to art, to famous philosophers.
Of course, this is a short survey and so no one should think that any one topic is covered in depth. Breadth rather than depth is the book's objective.
The book could be used by:
1. Self learners
2. People taking a logic course who want a quick overview or supplement
3. People, who would like rudimentary familiarity with logic for their work, but do not need a college course or a full-length logic book.
...
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Intro to Graham Priest's Logic
2005/5/13
形式:ペーパーバック
For its length and breadth, I'd recommend this little book to most people. I teach a course on Logic, and even I learned a bit from this short introduction.
The worry, however, is that Priest takes this book as an opportunity to push his own non-standard view on formal logic, which is why a better title for this book would be `A short Introduction to Priest's Logic'.
Most immediately evident is that Priest uses many of the chapters as a place to show how an argument for the existence of god. For example, much of the chapter on predicate logic is devoted to showing the fallacy inherent in the cosmological argument for the existence of god. His chapter on decision theory is in part devoted to showing how Pascal's wager goes wrong.
Probably even more subversive is that, in an introductory level logic book, Priest presents his own unorthodox solutions to paradoxes in logic. For example, to solve the problem of self-reference, he presents his own view regarding four valued logics, without even a word explaining that not only is this not the standard view, it's not even a very popular one. He also offers fuzzy logic as a solution of vagueness and sorites paradoxes.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and would offer it to any friend interested in a brief introduction to some advanced topics in logic. But I'll be sure to emphasize that much of what he offers for solutions is hardly accepted by mainstream analytic philosophy. Priest took advantage of this chance to write an introductory level text as an opportunity to push his own views, and anyone reading this should be aware of this fact before beginning.
The worry, however, is that Priest takes this book as an opportunity to push his own non-standard view on formal logic, which is why a better title for this book would be `A short Introduction to Priest's Logic'.
Most immediately evident is that Priest uses many of the chapters as a place to show how an argument for the existence of god. For example, much of the chapter on predicate logic is devoted to showing the fallacy inherent in the cosmological argument for the existence of god. His chapter on decision theory is in part devoted to showing how Pascal's wager goes wrong.
Probably even more subversive is that, in an introductory level logic book, Priest presents his own unorthodox solutions to paradoxes in logic. For example, to solve the problem of self-reference, he presents his own view regarding four valued logics, without even a word explaining that not only is this not the standard view, it's not even a very popular one. He also offers fuzzy logic as a solution of vagueness and sorites paradoxes.
Overall, I thoroughly enjoyed reading this book, and would offer it to any friend interested in a brief introduction to some advanced topics in logic. But I'll be sure to emphasize that much of what he offers for solutions is hardly accepted by mainstream analytic philosophy. Priest took advantage of this chance to write an introductory level text as an opportunity to push his own views, and anyone reading this should be aware of this fact before beginning.
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Excellent brief introduction to logic
2003/1/15
形式:ペーパーバック
This is just the book to whet one's appetite for a deeper engagement in logic. Priest's little book has short, clearly written chapters on validity, truth functions, quantifiers, descriptions, self-reference, modal operators, conditionals, tenses, identity, vagueness, inductive logic, and decision theory. Virtually every chapter shows how interesting philosophical problems arise from or are tied in with logic. The only possible drawback to the book is that new initiates to the philosophical foundations of logic are likely to never again have a good night's sleep after Priest introduces them to some of the classic puzzles.
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