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When ordinary people including mathematicians, take something to follow from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our ability to reason. Azzouni investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues invented by logicians.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Azzouni, Jody
Format: eBook
Language:English
Language Notes:English.
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
Subjects:
Proof theory.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.
Théorie de la preuve.
Logique symbolique et mathématique.
MATHEMATICS > Infinity.
MATHEMATICS > Logic.
Logic, Symbolic and mathematical
Proof theory
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary:When ordinary people including mathematicians, take something to follow from something else, they are exposing the backbone of our ability to reason. Azzouni investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues invented by logicians.
Physical Description:1 online resource (vi, 248 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 231-238) and index.
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