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- From: amnell@klaava.Helsinki.FI (Marko Amnell)
- Newsgroups: sci.logic
- Subject: John Etchemendy
- Message-ID: <1992Oct7.065815.25425@klaava.Helsinki.FI>
- Date: 7 Oct 92 06:58:15 GMT
- Organization: University of Helsinki
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- Somebody mentioned Etchemendy and Barwise's _The Liar_. I'm having
- trouble with my newsreader, so I couldn't follow-up that article.
- This is a very good book, I'm told. Similar results with ill-founded
- sets are obtained in Patrick Grim's new book _The Incomplete Universe_.
-
- On an unrelated note, I have in front of me a new book by Etchemendy,
- _The Concept of Logical Consequence_. This looks like a brilliant
- book. Etchemendy is arguing that both the syntactic and the orthodox
- Tarskian semantic characterizations of the entailment relation fail
- to capture what we truly mean by the concept of logical consequence.
- The first part of this is hardly controversial, but the second is
- novel. I haven't read more than the first chapter yet, but this looks
- like essential reading for all students of logic. An original
- first-rate treatise in the philosophy of logic is a rare thing indeed,
- but here we have one. (Harvard U.P. 1990)
-
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- Marko Amnell
- amnell@klaava.helsinki.fi
- Graduate Student in Philosophy
-