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  • Time and Space in Formal Logic
    Richard L Epstein
    Time and Space in Formal Logic begins with an analysis of assumptions about how logic and language relate. Then in the first section, times are taken to be established by true propositions, and those are related as before and after with temporal propositional connectives. In the second section, times are treated as things that can be picked out and counted, leading to a predi...
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    56,19 €

  • Language and the World
    Richard L Epstein
    This book presents a new perspective on ways we encounter the world with our languages.    There are two kinds of languages.  Some direct speakers to encounter the world as made up of things. Others direct speakers to encounter the world as the flow of all with no idea of change, for there is no thing to change, only differing descriptions of the flow. The essays by Richard L...
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    25,05 €

  • An Introduction to Formal Logic
    Richard L Epstein
    • Intended for a course for students in philosophy, mathematics, linguistics, or computer science, and excellent for self-study.  • Motivation is given for each formal concept and each step in building a formal logic in terms of formalizing reasoning.  Summaries are given at important junctures in the book to keep students aware of what they are doing and where they are going.•...
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    33,49 €

  • How to Reason + Reasoning in the Sciences
    Richard L Epstein
    Too often we’re guided by what we last heard, by our friends’ approval, by impulse—our desires, our fears.  Without reflection.  Without even stopping to think.   **  In this book you’ll learn how to reason and find your way better in life.  You’ll learn to see the consequences of what you and others say and do. You’ll learn to see the assumptions that you and others make.  You...
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    19,57 €

  • How to Reason
    Richard L Epstein
    Too often we’re guided by what we last heard, by our friends’ approval, by impulse—our desires, our fears.  Without reflection.  Without even stopping to think.   **  In this book you’ll learn how to reason and find your way better in life.  You’ll learn to see the consequences of what you and others say and do. You’ll learn to see the assumptions that you and others make.  You...
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    17,52 €

  • Guía breve para el pensamiento crítico
    Richard L Epstein / Dahlquist Manuel A / JUAN FRANCISCO RIZZO
    Lo primero es pensar con claridad; después, escribir con claridad. La Guía breve para el pensamiento crítico lo ayudará a desarrollar las habilidades necesarias para razonar bien en sus estudios y en la vida cotidiana. Incluye cientos de ejemplos claros, divertidos y detallados que lo ayudarán a analizar argumentos y tomar mejores decisiones. La Guía breve para el pensamiento c...
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    10,66 €

  • Critical Thinking
    Michael Rooney / Richard L Epstein
    This fifth edition of Critical Thinking by the noted logician Richard L. Epstein is practical, engaging, and easy to teach.  Students enjoy and understand it because it is clear and has hundreds of examples using a cast of characters who reason as we do every day.  More than 1,000 exercises lead students to be able to reason well in their courses and their lives.  Essay writing...
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    66,67 €

  • The Internal Structure of Predicates and Names
    Richard L Epstein
    This series of volumes is meant to extend the scope of what we can formalize in classical predicate logic, and in doing so see the real limitations of what can be done.The first section of this volume presents classical predicate logic with equality.In the second section. that logic is extended to formalize reasoning that involves adverbs and relative adjectives by viewing thos...
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    44,68 €

  • The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking fifth edition
    Richard L Epstein
    First comes clear thinking, then comes clear writing. *** The Pocket Guide to Critical Thinking teaches very clearly the essential skills to reason better--for classwork, for writing, and in everyday life. Hundreds of pertinent, analyzed, and engaging examples from the Internet, magazines, newspapers, radio, as well as dialogues of cartoon characters illustrate how to analyze ...
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    22,09 €

  • Reasoning and Formal Logic
    Richard L Epstein
    This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The basic theme here is the analysis of formal logic in terms of what metaphysical assumptions we ne...
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    19,05 €

  • Conventional Gestures
    Richard L. Epstein
    Conventional gestures are those movements we make, such as waving hello and shaking hands, that are part of a learned, shared, symbolic system. In this book Richard L. Epstein working with the illustrator Alex Raffi examines how such gestures mean and how we can study them. Drawing on their collection of over 400 American gestures, available on the Advanced Reasoning Forum we...
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    38,21 €

  • Prescriptive Reasoning
    Richard L. Epstein
    This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay i...
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    18,98 €

  • The Fundamentals of Argument Analysis
    Richard L Epstein
    This series of books presents the fundamentals of logic in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the notes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of logic as the art of reasoning well, yet each essay...
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    18,90 €

  • Propositional Logics Third Edition
    Richard L Epstein
    Propositional Logics presents the history, philosophy, and mathematics of the major systems of propositional logic.Classical logic, modal logics, many-valued logics, intuitionism, paraconsistent logics, and dependent implication are examined in separate chapters. Each begins with a motivation in the originators’ own terms, followed by the standard formal semantics, syntax, and...
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    42,34 €

  • Predicate Logic
    Richard L Epstein
    The forms and scope of logic rest on assumptions of how language and reasoning connect toexperience. In this volume an analysis of meaning and truth provides a foundation for studyingmodern propositional and predicate logics. Chapters on propositional logic, parsing propositions, and meaning, truth and reference give a basis for criteria that can be used to judge formalizatio...
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    54,25 €

  • Reasoning in Science and Mathematics
    Richard L Epstein
    This series of books is meant to present the fundamentals of reasoning well in a clear manner accessible to both scholars and students. The body of each essay gives the main development of the subject, while the footnotes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The topic of this volume is the nature and evaluation of reasoning in science and ma...
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    14,36 €

  • Cause and Effect, Conditionals, Explanations
    Richard L Epstein
    This series of books presents the fundamentals of reasoning well, in a style accessible to both students and scholars. The text of each essay presents a story, the main line of development of the ideas, while the footnotes and appendices place the research within a larger scholarly context. The essays overlap, forming a unified analysis of reasoning, yet each essay is designe...
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    19,02 €

  • Computability
    Richard L. Epstein / Walter A Carnielli
    The classic presentation of the theory of computable functions in the context of the foundations of mathematics. Part I motivates the study of computability with discussions and readings about the crisis in the foundations of mathematics in the early 20th century, while presenting the basic ideas of whole number, function, proof, and real number. Part II starts with readings fr...
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    54,46 €

  • Classical Mathematical Logic
    Richard L. Epstein / Richard LEpstein
    In Classical Mathematical Logic, Richard L. Epstein relates the systems of mathematical logic to their original motivations to formalize reasoning in mathematics. The book also shows how mathematical logic can be used to formalize particular systems of mathematics. It sets out the formalization not only of arithmetic, but also of group theory, field theory, and linear orderings...
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    126,32 €