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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Historical Perspectives on the Square
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Front Matter
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Philosophical Perspectives on the Square
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Front Matter
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Theoretical Investigations on the Square
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About this book
This is a collection of new investigations and discoveries on the theory of opposition (square, hexagon, octagon, polyhedra of opposition) by the best specialists from all over the world.
The papers range from historical considerations to new mathematical developments of the theory of opposition including applications to theology, theory of argumentation and metalogic.
Keywords
- Square of Opposition
- Hexagon of Opposition
- Visual Reasoning
- Modal logic
- Paraconsistent logic
Editors and Affiliations
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Research Council, University of Brazil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Jean-Yves Béziau
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Faculty of Philosophy, Pontifical Lateran University, Rome, Italy
Gianfranco Basti
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Square of Opposition: A Cornerstone of Thought
Editors: Jean-Yves Béziau, Gianfranco Basti
Series Title: Studies in Universal Logic
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45062-9
Publisher: Birkhäuser Cham
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45061-2Published: 17 March 2017
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45062-9Published: 10 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2297-0282
Series E-ISSN: 2297-0290
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VI, 337
Number of Illustrations: 51 b/w illustrations, 74 illustrations in colour
Topics: Logic, Philosophy of Mathematics, Mathematical Logic and Foundations