Combining Texts

Ideas for 'works', 'Darwinian Metaphysics: Species and Essentialism' and 'The Runabout Inference Ticket'

expand these ideas     |    start again     |     choose another area for these texts

display all the ideas for this combination of texts

---

5 ideas

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 1. Logical Form

4730	For Aristotle, the subject-predicate structure of Greek reflected a substance-accident structure of reality [Aristotle, by O'Grady]

5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 2. Logical Connectives / a. Logical connectives

11021

Prior rejected accounts of logical connectives by inference pattern, with 'tonk' his absurd example [Prior,AN, by Read]

13836

Maybe introducing or defining logical connectives by rules of inference leads to absurdity [Prior,AN, by Hacking]

17896

We need to know the meaning of 'and', prior to its role in reasoning [Prior,AN, by Belnap]

17898

Prior's 'tonk' is inconsistent, since it allows the non-conservative inference A |- B [Belnap on Prior,AN]