Formal languages in logic : a philosophical and cognitive analysis /
"Formal Languages in Logic Formal languages are widely regarded as being above all mathematical objects, and as producing a greater level of precision and technical complexity in logical investigations because of this. Yet defining formal languages exclusively in this way offers only a partial...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- 1. Two notions of formality
- 2. On the very notion of a formal language
- 3. The history, purposes and limitations of formal languages
- 4. How we do reason, and the need for counterbalance in science
- 5. Formal languages and extended cognition
- 6. De-semantification
- 7. The debiasing effect of formalization
- Conclusion.
