The Thinker's Guide to Scientific Thinking focuses on developing the intellectual skills inherent in the well-cultivated practice of every area of scientific research and study.
This volume summarizes recent developments in the topological and algebraic structures in fuzzy sets and may be rightly viewed as a continuation of the stan- dardization of the mathematics of fuzzy sets established in the "e;Handbook"e;, namely the Mathematics of Fuzzy Sets: Logic, Topology, and Measure Theory, Volume 3 of The Handbooks of Fuzzy Sets Series (Kluwer Academic Publish- ers, 1999).
This book offers an in-depth and updated examination of the nature of haecceity-that primitive entity which explains why something is distinct from other things.
Die Frage, ob die kantische Tafel der Urteile vollständig und wenn ja, ob diese Vollständigkeit deduktiv beweisbar ist, bildet eine der zentralen Problemstellungen der Kantforschung.
Kaum ein anderer philosophischer Grundbegriff hat so vielfältige und auf den ersten Blick disparate philosophische Debatten hervorgebracht wie der Begriff der Existenz.
Games, Norms, and Reasons: Logic at the Crossroads provides an overview of modern logic focusing on its relationships with other disciplines, including new interfaces with rational choice theory, epistemology, game theory and informatics.
Die „Enzyklopädie Philosophie- und Wissenschaftstheorie“, das größte allgemeine Nachschlagewerk zur Philosophie im deutschsprachigen Raum, wurde 1980 begonnen und 1996 mit dem vierten Band abgeschlossen.
This book develops a new approach to plural arbitrary reference and examines mereology, including considering four theses on the alleged innocence of mereology.
This volume sheds a new light on Philosophical Investigations, Ludwig Wittgenstein's master opus, by taking a new approach to its first stretch (sections 1-88), with special emphasis on its atypical opening.
Das Buch beabsichtigt, mit den Mitteln einer phänomenologischen Semantik, einen Beitrag zum Verständnis der Modallogik und ihrer philosophischen Implikationen zu liefern.
During a recent visit to China to give an invited lecture on legal argumentation I was asked a question about conventional opinion in western countries.
This book develops a naturalistic aesthetic theory that accounts for aesthetic phenomena in mathematics in the same terms as it accounts for more traditional aesthetic phenomena.
In the World Library of Psychologists series, international experts themselves present career-long collections of what they judge to be their finest pieces - extracts from books, key articles, salient research findings, and their major theoretical and practical contributions.
This contributed volume includes both theoretical research on philosophical logic and its applications in artificial intelligence, mostly employing the concepts and techniques of modal logic.
Dieser Buchtitel ist Teil des Digitalisierungsprojekts Springer Book Archives mit Publikationen, die seit den Anfängen des Verlags von 1842 erschienen sind.
This book presents a collection of studies by Romanian philosophers, addressing foundational issues currently debated in contemporary philosophy of science.
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