Download or read book The Doctrine of Propositions and Terms written by Arthur N. Prior and published by Bloomsbury Academic. This book was released on 1976 with total page 152 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “Arthur Prior’s Formal logic has been familiar to students for twenty years, but the historical section that was originally meant to accompany it was never published. In this book P. T. Geach and A. J. P. Kenny have selected from those parts of the material that were not superseded by Prior’s later publications a self-contained study of the philosophical prehistory of contemporary logic. Like Prior’s early work Logic and the Basis of Ethics the material here presented is both historical and critical: Prior was not concerned to decide for us the controverted questions of logical doctrine which he discusses. He may be compared to an experienced judge summing up in a complicated civil action: the case for each side is clearly and fairly presented, and although on some issues the summing-up amounts to a pretty clear direction of the jury, the jurymen themselves are left to decide the issues. The value of such an historical survey is to be measured by the ill effects of ignoring our predecessors’ labours. The course of the philosophy of logic in the decades since Prior wrote these pages has continued to illustrate the saying that those who will not learn the history of philosophy are compelled to relive it.” - Publisher