In the eyes of the upholders of inductive logic, a principle of induction is of supreme importance for scientific method: '...this principle', says Reichenbach, 'determines the truth of scientific ...

David Papineau, King's College, London "Hacking's textbook is likely to become the standard for inductive logic courses. He writes simply, in a lively style, without oversimplification. it starts at ...

We do not plan to talk about modal logic, inductive logic, or probability theory, simply because the scope must be restricted in some way, and each of those topics is too big for us to cover. But we ...

This is an introduction to logic and the axiomatization of set theory from a unique standpoint. Philosophical considerations, which are often ignored or treated casually, are here given careful ...