The Existential Import of Categorical Predication (Classic Reprint): Studies in Logic: Studies in Logic (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

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The Existential Import of Categorical Predication examines whether what we assert in categorical propositions requires that their terms name actual existences. It clarifies how logic treats existence, reality, and the meanings of subject and predicate across different forms of judgment.

This scholarly work traces a long debate from ancient to modern times and presents a precise, independent treatment of the topic. Readers will see how names, existence, and the structure of judgments interrelate, and how these ideas influence both formal and symbolic logic. The book uses historical and logical analysis to illuminate how universal and particular propositions relate to existence, without assuming any one view about reality.

• How different forms of judgment handle existence and non-existence.


• Where the ideas of name, meaning, and reference fit into logical analysis.


• How formal and symbolic logic address existential questions in practice.


• How historic positions (like those of Venn, Keynes, and Herbart) are evaluated.

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