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Decision making cuts across all human activities. Yet we rarely study much less apply the fundamental thinking processes that should be undertaken before we make important decisions. Most of us can't stop our emotions from having more sway than rational deliberation. Dr. Howard, who has spent much of his career studying this struggle between instinct and logic, describes the elements of high-quality decisions: proper framing, clear alternatives, appropriate...
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These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
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These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
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These brief and enlightening explorations of our greatest thinkers bring their ideas to life in entertaining and accessible fashion. Philosophical thought is deciphered and made comprehensive and interesting to almost everyone. Far from being a novelty, each book is a highly refined appraisal of the philosopher and his work, authoritative and clearly presented.
6) Model Theory
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Model theory deals with a branch of mathematical logic showing connections between a formal language and its interpretations or models. This is the first and most successful textbook in logical model theory. Extensively updated and corrected in 1990 to accommodate developments in model theoretic methods - including classification theory and nonstandard analysis - the third edition added entirely new sections, exercises, and references. Each chapter...
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Mathematical induction - along with its equivalents, complete induction and well-ordering, and its immediate consequence, the pigeonhole principle - constitute essential proof techniques. Every mathematician is familiar with mathematical induction, and every student of mathematics requires a grasp of its concepts. This volume provides an introduction and a thorough exposure to these proof techniques. Geared toward students of mathematics at all levels,...
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Category theory has provided the foundations for many of the twentieth century's greatest advances in pure mathematics. This concise, original text for a one-semester course on the subject is derived from courses that author Emily Riehl taught at Harvard and Johns Hopkins Universities. The treatment introduces the essential concepts of category theory: categories, functors, natural transformations, the Yoneda lemma, limits and colimits, adjunctions,...
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Logic is an important part of the lives of humans and it is
something which has helped the human race so far, for
understanding various concepts of nature and their man-made
things and inventions. Logic is a technique which can be
applied to any stream, where humans work. Logic is used for
a better understanding of a concept. The concept can be a
simple problem or a complex one. This can be varying from
problems to problems. Here, a precise discussion...
10) Wittgenstein
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La obra de Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889-1951) es una acumulación, un torbellino de revueltas. La revuelta de una filosofía que apunta a la disolución de todo filosofar embrujado por la gramática. La revuelta del lógico que realza lo místico. La revuelta del soldado frente al sinsentido. La revuelta del que calla su voz filosófica. La revuelta del que impugna el mandato del silencio y se deja sorprender por la diversidad de la acción del lenguaje....
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Pensar con todo el rigor de la lógica es como hacer ejercicio a gran altitud: es una práctica demandante, tal vez agotadora, que luego permite enfrentar los retos cotidianos con enorme facilidad. Eugenia Cheng será tu entrenadora personal en el arte de la lógica, esa forma de razonar que permite construir complejos argumentos paso a pasito, sobre lo sublime y lo trivial, hasta alcanzar momentos de verdadera iluminación. Con chispa y ambición...
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Words of Wisdom is a collection of intense, resourceful, eye-opening quotes born out of the mind of the author, based on people and situations in and around his daily routine. Inspired by stories, relationships and current events, Mr. Russ utilizes his perspective to generate a positive, but general outlook or assessment that can benefit all who stumble across his words. It's evident that the goal is typically to come to the most positive but realistic...
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To the logical realist, mathematical truths reside in the mind, independent of the brain, meaning they are discovered. Conversely, the logical nominalist argues that mathematics is a construct of the human brain. As an invention, mathematics only stipulates the use of certain symbols, much like how the rules of chess govern how the pieces can move. This book discusses realism vs. nominalism within systems of logic. In this insightful examination,...
14) Peirce on Signs
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent...
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Originally published in 1938, this book contains John Dewey's study of inquiry, and will prove to be a fascinating read for anyone with an interest in psychology. Inquiry is one of the most essential skills in the world of business and management. This book can help clarify the process of inquiry and develop skills for inquiry in the context of decision making.
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'Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus' may be the most important book of philosophy written during the twentieth century. Wittgenstein's writing style is clear, succinct, and accessible. Bertrand Russell claimed that, "I cannot see any point on which it is wrong. But to have constructed a theory of logic which is not at any point obviously wrong is to have achieved a work of extraordinary difficulty and importance." Required reading for anyone interested...
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Sense and Syllogism: Logic in Life' introduces logic to the general reader. This book is for you if you have never studied logic, if you believe you have no use for logic, if you have no idea what logic is. Just a few essential ideas in logic are presented, and those are made simple and interesting through examples from life and literature. If all goes well, you should finish the book a little sharper and more alert than before.
18) Logic
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Logic is the art of thinking well. Are you trained in it?
In a world where questionable decisions and ill-founded thinking prevail, logic is needed now more than ever before. A short, succinct, concise primer on this elementary skill, TAN Books is pleased to present to those beginning their journey in philosophy with the skill that is the basis for all reasoning: logic.
Intended to give the basics on this art that produces clarity, sanity, and defense...
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Coherent, well-organized text familiarizes readers with complete theory of logical inference and its applications to math and the empirical sciences. Part I deals with formal principles of inference and definition. Part II explores elementary intuitive set theory, with separate chapters on sets, relations, and functions. Last section introduces numerous examples of axiomatically formulated theories.
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En filosofía muchas veces encontramos familias de argumentos, esto es, clases de argumentos que pueden ser parientes en virtud ya sea de su estructura, de las discusiones en las que están inmersos o de las tesis que pretenden defender. En esta obra se intenta identificar una nueva familia de argumentos que antes no se había señalado explícitamente. Más específicamente, se pretende sacar a la luz que hay ciertos argumentos que comparten una...
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