Around and Beyond the Square of Opposition

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Béziau, Jean-Yves (Editor), Jacquette, Dale (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Basel : Springer Basel, 2012.
• Series: Studies in Universal Logic
• Subjects: Mathematics.; Logic.; Mathematical logic.; Mathematical Logic and Foundations.; Mathematics, general.

The theory of oppositions based on Aristotelian foundations of logic has been pictured in a striking square diagram which can be understood and applied in many different ways having repercussions in various fields: epistemology, linguistics, mathematics, sociology, physics. The square can also be ge...

Table of Contents:

• 1 Historical and Critical Aspects of the Square.- 2 Philosophical Discussions around the Square of Opposition
• 3 The Square of Opposition and Non-Classical Logics
• 4 Constructions Generalizing the Square of Opposition
• 5 Applications of the Square of Opposition.