Syllogistic logic and mathematical proof / Paolo Mancosu and Massimo Mugnai.
Pubblicazione:
Oxford : Oxford university press, 2023.
Descrizione fisica:
VI, 227 p. ; 24 cm
Contiene:
Indice: Acknowledgments. Introduction. 1. Aristotelian syllogism and mathematics in antiquity and the medieval period 2. Extensions of the syllogism in medieval logic 3. Syllogistic and mathematics: the case of Piccolomini 4. Obliquities and mathematics in the 17th and 18th centuries: from Jungius to Wolff 5. The extent of syllogistic reasoning: from Rüdiger to Wolff 6. Lambert and Kant 7. Bernard Bolzano on non-syllogistic reasoning 8. Thomas Reid, William Hamilton and Augustus de Morgan. Conclusion. References. Index of names