Being a logician, I thought of a kind of seduction that relies on logic rather than psychology to ensnare and entangle its targets. Let me first state the puzzle in terms of a more standard sort ...

Recently, the Swedish logician Dag Prawitz observed that, perhaps surprisingly, the traditional treatment of logic entirely fails to capture this intuition.

The genius logician Kurt Gödel gave his name to his famous Incompleteness Theorems, which in the 1930s helped define the limits of both logic and mathematics. It might be thought that the ...

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This was published 15 years ago Logician with a flair for grammar Vic Dudman, 1935-2009.

Piaget's conceptualization of concrete and formal operations is presented. The main contention is that Piaget has obfuscated logic, metaphysics, and methodology. The elucidation of this point and the ...

Recently, the Swedish logician Dag Prawitz observed that, perhaps surprisingly, the traditional treatment of logic entirely fails to capture this intuition. The modern discipline of logic, the sturdy ...