Logic from a rhetorical point of view / Witold Marciszewski.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 288-296) and indexes.

Preface -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter One: On the Rhetorical Point of View -- 1. Why rhetoric declined, and what remained of it -- 2. Descartes, Leibniz and Pascal facing a crisis in logic -- Chapter Two: Mind-Philosophical Logic as a Theory of Intelligence -- 1. A terminological introduction -- 2. A case study and methodological comments -- 3. Conceptual potential and conceptual engineering -- Chapter Three: Formalized versus Intuitive Arguments. The Historical Background -- 1. On how geometry and algebra influenced logic

2. The Renaissance reformism and intuitionism in logic3. Leibniz on the mechanization of arguments -- Chapter Four: Towards the Logic of General Names -- 1. From syllogistic to the calculus of classes -- 2. The existential import of general names -- 3. What names stand for: an exercise in Plato -- Chapter Five: The Truth-Functional Calculus and the Ordinary Use of Connectives -- 1. The functional approach to logic -- 2. The truth-functional analysis of denial and conjunction -- 3. The truth-functional analysis of disjunction

4. The truth-functional analysis of conditionalsChapter Six: The Predicate Calculus -- 1. Subject, predicate, quantifiers -- 2. Quantification rules, interpretation, formal systems -- 3. Predicate logic compared with natural logic -- Chapter Seven: Reasoning, Logic, and Intelligence -- 1. Does a logical theory improve natural intelligence? -- 2. The internal logical code in human bodies -- 3. The problem of generalization in the internal code -- 4. What intelligent generalization depends on -- 5. The role of a theory for intelligent generalization

6. Logic and geography of mind: mental kinds of reasoning7. Formal (�blind�) reasoning and artificial intelligence -- Chapter Eight: Defining, Logic, and Intelligence -- 1. The ostension procedure as a paradigm of definition -- 2. Normal definitions of predicates and names -- 3. The holistic doctrine of definition -- 4. Implicit definitions and conclusive conceptualization -- Chapter Nine: Symbolic Logic and Objectual Reasoning. Case Studies -- 1. On the case study method -- 2. Cicero�s reasoning in the light of symbolic logic

3. Martha�s objectual reasoning matched by symbolic logic4. Aspasia�s argument confronted with predicate logic -- Chapter Ten: Implicit Definitions and Conceptual Networks. Case Studies -- 1. A connectivist approach -- 2. The contrastive background: a definition for computers -- 3. The case of a definition in the food market -- 4. The case of nonexistent Geist and similar cases -- The Postscript as a Book-Network Interface Material versus Formal Arguments -- References -- Index of Names -- Index of Subjects -- Extended Table of Contents

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