| Description |
1 online resource |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Individuation, reference, and sortal terms -- Two styles of predication, dispositional and occurrent -- Ontological categories and categorial predication -- What is a criterion of identity? -- Identity conditions and their grounds -- Identity, vagueness, and modality -- Necessity, essence, and possible worlds -- The truth about counterfactuals -- Conditionals and conditional probability. |
| Summary |
Forms of thought are involved whenever we name, describe, or identify things, and whenever we distinguish between what is, might be, or must be the case. It appears to be a distinctive feature of human thought that we can have modal thoughts, about what might be possible or necessary, and conditional thoughts, about what would or might be the case if something else were the case. Even the simplest thoughts are structured like sentences, containing referential and predicative elements, and studying these structures is the main task of philosophical logic. This clear and accessible book investigates the forms of thought, drawing out and focusing on the central logical notions of reference, predication, identity, modality and conditionality. It will be useful to students and other interested readers in epistemology and metaphysics, philosophy of mind and language, and philosophical logic. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Logic.
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Logic. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Lowe, E.J. (E. Jonathan). Forms of thought 9781107001251 (DLC) 2012041306 (OCoLC)820780937 |
| ISBN |
9781107341388 (electronic book) |
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1107341388 (electronic book) |
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9780511734816 (electronic book) |
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0511734816 (electronic book) |
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9781107001251 |
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1107001250 |
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9781107347632 |
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1107347637 |
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