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Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

How to Solve the Paradoxes Without Sacrificing Classical Logic

By: Benjamin Alan Burgis

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Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

How to Solve the Paradoxes Without Sacrificing Classical Logic

By: Benjamin Alan Burgis

This book offers a defense against non-classical approaches to the paradoxes. The author argues that, despite appearances, the paradoxes give no reason at all to reject classical logic. In fact, he believes classical solutions fare better than non-classical ones with respect to key tests like Curry’s Paradox, a Liar-like paradox that dialetheists are forced to solve in a way totally disjoint from their solution to the Liar. Graham Priest’s In Contradiction was the first major work that advocated the use of non-classical approaches. Since then, these views have moved into the philosophical mainstream. Much of this movement is fueled by a widespread sense that these logically heterodox solutions get to the real nub of the issue. They lack the ad hoc feel of many other solutions to the paradoxes. The author believes that it's long past time for a response to these attacks against classical orthodoxy. He presents a non-logically-revisionary solution to the paradoxes. This title offers a literal way of cashing out the disquotation metaphor. While the details of the view are novel, the idea has a pre-history in the relevant literature. The author examines objections in detail. He rejects each in turn and concludes by comparing the virtues of his logically orthodox approach with those of the paraconsistent and paracomplete competition.

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Springer Nature

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303094624X

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9783030946241

The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

By: Benjamin Franklin

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The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

By: Benjamin Franklin

Adams was more successful as a writer than as a clergyman. As a poet, he wrote a series of generally impressive personal poems, crafted effective images, created a memorable melancholiac, composed a substantial poem in the Blackmorean mode, and translated parts of the Bible and Horace. Most of his poems were collected and published post-humously under his name in 1745. With his uncle Matthew Adams and Mather Byles, John Adams participated in Proteus Echo, the second essay series to appear in American newspapers. Franklin's Dogood papers were the first. In his essays, Adams is most important as a literary theorist, especially when addressing how much, if at all, authors should compromise their values in order to please readers. He encourages politeness and social interaction and criticizes boring ministers, thus evincing the changing social dynamics of the time. The advice to the love-lorn column might have originated in one of his contributions to Proteus Echo."--BOOK JACKET.

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216

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Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press

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0838639860

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9780838639863

The Near East Under Roman Rule

Selected Papers

By: Benjamin H. Isaac

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The Near East Under Roman Rule

Selected Papers

By: Benjamin H. Isaac

This is a collection of studies on the Roman Near East and Judaea, on Jewish history in the Roman period and on the Roman army in general. It includes papers on literary sources and inscriptions. Newly published material and recent studies are discussed and evaluated.

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514

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BRILL

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9004107363

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9789004107366

China and the European Union in Africa

Partners or Competitors?

By: Benjamin Barton

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China and the European Union in Africa

Partners or Competitors?

By: Benjamin Barton

China's rise on the international scene over the past few years has correlated with its exponential economic growth. The European Union (EU), the world's largest development aid provider, has been feeling the heat of Beijing's closer ties with Africa. As a result, the EU's overall policy-making towards Africa has suffered from a loss of credibility and this has been further exposed both by the success of China's investments in Africa, and by the favourable response that China's investment proposals have received from African leaders. Dividing the book into five parts, the editors and an outstanding line up of Chinese and European contributors guide the reader through the complexities of China's rising influence in Africa, but they also analyse if and how the EU should adapt to this.

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302

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Routledge

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1317167473

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9781317167471

The Future of Free Speech

By: Benjamin Walters

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The Future of Free Speech

By: Benjamin Walters

This book dives headfirst into the contemporary controversy over the limits of free speech. Changing conceptions of what constitutes legitimate harm coupled with the advent of the internet and social media have provided a challenging environment for defining the boundaries of acceptable speech in our contemporary society. This book argues that these problems emerge due to flaws in our free speech framework, leaving the argument for free speech vulnerable to becoming inverted into a justification for censorship. In response, this book argues for a version of free speech based on a framework of toleration. Drawing on the work of the philosopher Rainer Forst, a new justification for free speech is formulated – reflexive freedom of speech – which aims to overcome past issues and justify free speech in a way that is universal, consistent and just.

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141

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Springer Nature

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3031413563

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9783031413568

The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy

The Way Is Shut

By: Benjamin Studebaker

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The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy

The Way Is Shut

By: Benjamin Studebaker

This book argues that American democracy is in crisis. The economic system is slowly subjecting Americans of nearly all income levels and backgrounds to enormous amounts of stress. The United States lacks the state capacity required to alleviate this stress, and politicians increasingly find that if they promise to solve economic problems, they are likely to disappoint voters. Instead, they encourage voters to blame each other. The crisis cannot be solved, the economy cannot be set right, and democracy cannot be saved. But American democracy cannot be killed, either. Americans can’t imagine any compelling alternative political systems. And so, American democracy continues on, in a deeply unsatisfying way. Americans invent ever-more elaborate coping mechanisms in a desperate bid to go on. But it becomes increasingly clear that the way is shut. The American political system was made by those who are dead, and the dead keep it.

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211

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Springer Nature

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3031282108

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9783031282102

Rebolusyon!

A Generation of Struggle in the Philippines

By: Benjamin Pimentel

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Rebolusyon!

A Generation of Struggle in the Philippines

By: Benjamin Pimentel

In 1969, Ferdinand Marcos won a second term as president, in one of the dirtiest campaigns in Philippine history. That same year, Edgar Jopson was elected president of the National Union of Students of the Philippines, in a campaign to keep the Communists out of the student movement. Thirteen years later Jopson was gunned down by the military during a raid on an underground safehouse. He was by then one of the most wanted people in the country, with a price on his head, a leading Communist Party cadre and member of the urban underground. Jopson was an unusual individual, and his story is a fascinating one. Yet his experiences were those of a generation of student radicals that came of age in the 1970s, and galvanized a country to action in the 1980s. Thus this book is not just the biography of one person, it is the history of a generation.

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351

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NYU Press

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0853458235

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9780853458234

Vaginal Surgery for the Urologist E-Book

Female Pelvic Surgery Video Atlas Series: Expert Consult: Online

By: Victor W. Nitti,Nirit Rosenblum,Benjamin M Brucker

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Vaginal Surgery for the Urologist E-Book

Female Pelvic Surgery Video Atlas Series: Expert Consult: Online

By: Victor W. Nitti,Nirit Rosenblum,Benjamin M Brucker

Vaginal Surgery for the Urologist, by Victor W. Nitti, MD, is the ideal way to enhance your skills in the diagnosis and management of pelvic disease. In this volume in the Female Pelvic Surgery Video Atlas Series, edited by Mickey Karram, MD, detailed discussions and illustrations, case studies, and video footage clarify how to most effectively select and perform a variety of procedures and manage complications. Corresponding online video presentations at www.expertconsult.com take you step by step through each decision and procedure. Case-based presentations and videos, narrated by the authors, take you step by step through a variety of procedures including anterior repair with paravaginal repair; simple vaginal hysterectomy for stage III uterine prolapse; high uterosacral suspension in a patient with complete uterine procidentia; incision of pubovaginal sling; and repair of vesicovaginal fistula (VVF) using a peritoneal flap tissue interposition. Highly illustrated, quick-reference chapters discuss all of the possible diagnoses for which each procedure is indicated. Case studies describe the clinical history surrounding each case featured in the videos. Online access at www.expertconsult.com places the full text, downloadable image library, video clips, and more at your fingertips on any computer or mobile device.

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Elsevier Health Sciences

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145573392X

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9781455733927

Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

How to Solve the Paradoxes Without Sacrificing Classical Logic

By: Benjamin Alan Burgis

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Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

How to Solve the Paradoxes Without Sacrificing Classical Logic

By: Benjamin Alan Burgis

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Book's by Benjamin Alan Burgis

Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

The Other John Adams, 1705-1740

The Near East Under Roman Rule

The Near East Under Roman Rule

China and the European Union in Africa

China and the European Union in Africa

The Future of Free Speech

The Future of Free Speech

The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy

The Chronic Crisis of American Democracy

Rebolusyon!

Rebolusyon!

Vaginal Surgery for the Urologist E-Book

Vaginal Surgery for the Urologist E-Book

Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

Logic Without Gaps or Gluts

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