Language, Truth and Logic
- Kind
- Book
- Date
- 1952-06-01
- Publisher
- Dover Publications
- Retrieved
- Sep 14, 2011
- ISBN
- 0486200108
- EAN
- 9780486200101
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Logic and Math are the Rules We Work Within
The principles of logic and mathematics are true universally simply because we never allow them to be anything else. And the reason for this is that we cannot abandon them without contradicting ourselves, without sinning against the rules which govern the use of language, and so making our utterances self-stultifying…
The Problem of Induction
It is time, therefore, to abandon the superstition that natural science cannot be regarded as logically respectable until philosophers have solved the problem of induction. The problem of induction is, roughly speaking, the problem of finding a way to prove that certain empirical generalizations which are derived from…