Lewis Carroll
Selected Mathematical Works: Symbolic Logic + The Game of Logic + Feeding the Mind
by Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, alias Lewis Carroll
e-artnow, 2021EAN 4064066444129
Table of Contents
SYMBOLIC LOGIC
THE GAME OF LOGIC
SYMBOLIC LOGIC
Contents
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
BOOK I. THINGS AND THEIR ATTRIBUTES.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.CHAPTER V.
BOOK II. PROPOSITIONS.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.
BOOK III. THE BILITERAL DIAGRAM.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.
BOOK IV. THE TRILITERAL DIAGRAM.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.CHAPTER IV.
BOOK V. SYLLOGISMS.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.
BOOK VI. THE METHOD OF SUBSCRIPTS.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.
BOOK VII. SORITESES.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.
BOOK VIII. EXAMPLES, ANSWERS, AND SOLUTIONS.CHAPTER I.CHAPTER II.CHAPTER III.
APPENDIX, ADDRESSED TO TEACHERS. NOTES TO APPENDIX.
A Syllogism worked out.
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That story of yours, about your once meeting the sea-serpent, always sets me off yawning;
I never yawn, unless when I’m listening to something totally devoid of interest.
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The Premisses, separately.
The Premisses, combined.
The Conclusion.
That story of yours, about your once meeting the sea-serpent, is totally devoid of interest.
PART I
ELEMENTARY
PREFACE TO THE FOURTH EDITION.
The chief alterations, since the First Edition, have been made in the Chapter on ‘Classification’ (pp. 2, 3) and the Book on ‘Propositions’ (pp. 10 to 19). The chief additions have been the questions on words and phrases, added to the Examination-Papers at p. 94, and the Notes inserted at pp. 164, 194.
In Book I, Chapter II, I have adopted a new definition of ‘Classification’, which enables me to regard the whole Universe as a ‘Class,’ and thus to dispense with the very awkward phrase ‘a Set of Things.’
In the Chapter on ‘Propositions of Existence’