The Principles of Logic

Francis Herbert Bradley (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

327 Seiten

2002 | Unabridged edition
Cambridge Scholars Press (Verlag)
978-1-904303-01-5 (ISBN)

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The book is a new edition of the 1883 version of Francis Herbert Bradley’s Principles of Logic. Though annotations in the main text are minimal, a new introduction by William Moss places the work in context describing its early reception as well as its present-day importance. There can be no doubt that this text is pivotal for our understanding of the thought of the leading British idealist, and therefore of late nineteenth century philosophy in general. The author sketches in great detail his views in a large number of areas within logic, from the nature of universals and inference, to the laws and foundations of probabilities. The account makes use and criticism of the works on logic and related fields of his contemporaries, such as Sigwart, Lotze, Bain, and Venn. In his introduction, William Moss asks a few thought-provoking questions on Bradley's position and image in the tradition of analytic philosophy, focusing on whether indeed the traditionally held view that Bradley comes at the close of a period which is now very much behind us and of little use for philosophical activity today, is justified.

Francis Herbert Bradley is the most widely read British idealist.William Moss is currently completing a PhD in the history of mathematics in Cape Town.

Preface to 1883 edition. Book I Judgment: the general nature of judgment; the categorical and hypothetical forms of judgment; the negative judgment; the disjunctive judgment; principles of identity, contradiction, excluded middle and double negation; the quantity of judgments; the modality of judgments. Book II part I The general nature of inference: some characteristics of reasoning; some erroneous views; a general idea of inference; principles of reasoning; negative reasoning; two conditions of inference. Book II, part II inference continued: the theory of association of ideas; the argument from particulars to particulars; the inductive methods of proof; Jevons' equational logic. Book III, part I Inference continued: the enquiry reopened; fresh specimens of inference; general characteristics of inference; the main types of inference; another feature of inference; the final essence of reasoning; the beginnings of inference. Book III, part II Inference continued: formal and material reasoning; the cause and the because; the validity of inference; the validity of inference continued.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	29.8.2002
Verlagsort	Newcastle upon Tyne
Sprache	englisch
Maße	148 x 212 mm
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Geschichte der Philosophie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Logik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie der Neuzeit
ISBN-10	1-904303-01-3 / 1904303013
ISBN-13	978-1-904303-01-5 / 9781904303015
Zustand	Neuware