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Copyright Page 2 Very Short Introduction 4 Title Page 13 Dedication 15 Contents 16 Preface 18 List of Illustrations 20 1 Validity: What Follows from What? 22 2 Truth Functions – Or Not? 28 3 Names and Quantifiers: Is Nothing Something? 38 4 Descriptions and Existence: Did the Greeks Worship Zeus? 45 5 Self-Reference: What is this Chapter About? 52 6 Necessity and Possibility: What Will be Must be? 59 7 Conditionals: What’s in an If? 68 8 The Future and the Past: Is Time Real? 75 9 Identity and Change: Is Anything Ever the Same? 84 10 Vagueness: How do you Stop Sliding down a Slippery Slope? 91 11 Probability: The Strange Case of the Missing Reference Class 99 12 Inverse Probability: You can’t be Indifferent About it! 107 13 Decision Theory: Great Expectations 115 14 A Little History and Some Further Reading 124 Glossary 132 Problems 137 Bibliography 140 General Index 142 Index of Names 148
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Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- Graham Priest
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Language
- EN
- Category
- mathematics
- Subjects
- Mathematics, Stem
- Rating
- 3.66 / 5 (673 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14
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