Stoic Logic PDF book (1953) by Benson Mates
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The book "Stoic Logic" by Benson Mates, originally published in 1953, is a detailed and scholarly study of the propositional logic developed by the early Stoic philosophers like Zeno and Chrysippus. It reconstructs the Stoic logical system, their semantic theory, and compares them with modern logic developments. The book also includes new translations of important Stoic fragments and a glossary of technical terms.
The aim of this study is to present a true description of the logic of the Old Stoa. It repeats most of Lukasiewicz’s published conclusions on the subject and offers additional evidence for them.
The aim of this study is to present a true description of the logic of the Old Stoa. It repeats most of Lukasiewicz’s published conclusions on the subject and offers additional evidence for them.
It also describes the Stoic semantical theory and compares it with certain similar modern theories, attempts to give a better account of the heretofore misunderstood Diodorean implication, points out the Stoic version of the conditionalization principle, and discusses the contention of the Stoics that their propositional logic was complete.
Copyright: 1953
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Copyright: 1953
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