The Logic of Conditionals: An Application of Probability to Deductive Logic

Adams, Ernst W.:

ISBN 10: 902770631X / ISBN 13: 9789027706317

Published by Dordrecht : Reidel, 1975

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XIII, 155 Seiten Synthese Library 86 - Leineneinband mit Gebrauchsspuren und mit den üblichen Bibliotheks-Markierungen, Stempeln und Einträgen, innen wie außen, siehe Bilder. (Evtl. auch Kleber- und/oder Etikettenreste, sowie -abdrücke durch abgelöste Bibliotheksschilder). Seiten mit wenigen Bleistiftmarkierungen im Text und/oder am Textrand, mit Legende, fast fleckenfrei. In Englisch B13-04-03A|S37 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 400.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Logic of Conditionals: An Application of Probability to Deductive Logic
• Publisher: Dordrecht : Reidel
• Publication Date: 1975
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 902770631X
• ISBN 13: 9789027706317
• Binding: 23 x 15,5 cm
• Edition: Volume 86.
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 400 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Modernes Antiquariat

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Synopsis

Of the four chapters in this book, the first two discuss (albeit in consider­ ably modified form) matters previously discussed in my papers 'On the Logic of Conditionals' [1] and 'Probability and the Logic of Conditionals' [2], while the last two present essentially new material. Chapter I is relatively informal and roughly parallels the first of the above papers in discussing the basic ideas of a probabilistic approach to the logic of the indicative conditional, according to which these constructions do not have truth values, but they do have probabilities (equal to conditional probabilities), and the appropriate criterion of soundness for inferences involving them is that it should not be possible for all premises of the inference to be probable while the conclusion is improbable. Applying this criterion is shown to have radically different consequences from the orthodox 'material conditional' theory, not only in application to the standard 'fallacies' of the material conditional, but to many forms (e. g. , Contraposition) which have hitherto been regarded as above suspi­ cion. Many more applications are considered in Chapter I, as well as certain related theoretical matters. The chief of these, which is the most important new topic treated in Chapter I (i. e.