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Chapter

Logical Intention and Comparative Principles of Empirical Logic

In this paper I shall offer a connected set of notions by which Peirce’s vague notion of logical intention may be freed from its context of willfulness by connecting it instead with the representation-talk of our...

E. M. Barth in Living Doubt (1994)

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A new field: Empirical logic bioprograms, logemes and logics as institutions

E. M. Barth in Synthese (1985)

Article

The logical paradigm in dialectical philosophy and science

E. M. Barth in Erkenntnis (1977)

Article

Philosophy of religion and the reality of models for modalities

E. M. Barth in Erkenntnis (1975)

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Naming What Is

Von Freytag draws an ontological distinction between ontologically concrete and ontologically abstract things.¹ According to his usage of language, entities are ontologically concrete when they enjoy an independe...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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From the History of the Logic of Indefinite Propositions

We have already mentioned, in Section 4 of the last chapter, that von Freytag ascribes the same Struktur to quantitatively undetermined judgments in the plural like ‘Europäer sind Menschen’ as to individual judgm...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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Singular — General — Indefinite

Von Freytag’s little book contains scarcely any information on the logic of logophoric terms. We therefore have no choice but to give considerable weight to his brief remarks on this topic. The reader will rem...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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Conjunction, Potentiality, and Disjunction

In his Topics, Cicero ascribes to the dialecticians — or logicians as we would say nowadays — a remarkable inference form. It is remarkable on account of the very special conceptual connection it reveals between ...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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Argument by Analogy

Several authors have taken an interest in the use of the articles in Hegel’s works, among them Leonard Nelson, M. Heidegger, and the Dutch authors J.A. Oosterbaan and W. van Dooren. Heidegger and Oosterbaan ar...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

Chapter

Introduction: Problems and Sources

In our day, almost all professional philosophers who explicitly relate their thinking to some known logical theory have opted for modern logic, a science developed since the second half of the last century, in...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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The Semantics of the Logical Constants

When logophoric terms the/an A (for instance, Husserl’s das A überhaupt) are taken up into someone’s use of language and are burdened with great philosophical significance, these terms must then be assumed of imp...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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From the History of the Logic of Individual Propositions

In English the expression “propositio singularis” is translated as “singular proposition”, in French as «proposition singulière», in German sometimes as „einzelnes Urteil“ (Kant, Herbart), sometimes as „singul...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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Introduction of Indefinite Propositions by Ekthesis

As explained in Chapter III, to reason on the ground of a particular proposition some S is P is a precarious procedure in which the introduction of the instantiated term must be done “critically” (III-2). The “fo...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)

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The Identity Theories of the Copula

It will be recalled that Maritain regards his distinction between suppositio naturalis and suppositio accidentalis as a division within suppositio personalis, and as a division pertaining to the verb or to the co...

E. M. Barth in The Logic of the Articles in Traditional Philosophy (1974)