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1) Brain teaser
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Solving brain teasers is fun. It is an interesting and engaging activity for a variety of occasions. Being good at solving brain teasers can make one more popular socially and more competitive career-wise. This is because such people are perceived as intrinsically more intelligent and interesting. As a matter of fact, many job interviews also test one's ability to solve brain teasers. Some interviews are entirely made up of them.This book contains...
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This book is the inevitable outcome of a greater universe vision that accounts for Conservation of Energy, where I ask the heretical question: is the Big Bang the actual moment of creation or just a common gravity-driven event? The topics discussed put in balance the observed and unexpected fact that our visible universe is expanding at an accelerating rate, a fact that completely caught the global physics community by surprise when the Hubble Space...
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Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) is rapidly becoming recognized as the greatest American philosopher. At the center of his philosophy was a revolutionary model of the way human beings think. Peirce, a logician, challenged traditional models by describing thoughts not as "ideas" but as "signs," external to the self and without meaning unless interpreted by a subsequent thought. His general theory of signs -- or semiotic -- is especially pertinent...
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Michael N. Forster is Professor of Philosophy and Chairman of the Philosophy Department at the University of Chicago.
What is the nature of a conceptual scheme? Are there alternative conceptual schemes? If so, are some more justifiable or correct than others? The later Wittgenstein already addresses these fundamental philosophical questions under the general rubric of "grammar" and the question of its "arbitrariness"--and does so with great subtlety....
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An accessible explanation of Kurt Gödel's groundbreaking work in mathematical logic
In 1931 Kurt Gödel published his fundamental paper, "On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems." This revolutionary paper challenged certain basic assumptions underlying much research in mathematics and logic. Gödel received public recognition of his work in 1951 when he was awarded the first Albert Einstein Award for achievement...
6) Imaginings
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These essays are on topics reflecting the intersection of science and humankind. They concern time, consciousness, beauty, probability, and understanding. They supplement and compliment my book Important Things We Don't Know (About Nearly Everything) and are presented here as an accompaniment to that book.
But, this volume can stand on its own.
For several years, I periodically updated Important Things. But, I decided to leave the last...
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In street culture you have people say that they are Real or Gangsta yet those are fallicies. At the end of the day it doesn't matter if you are a street person , hustler, or a average Joe it all comes down to being Solid. This book breaks down lessons to guide you in being just that.
8) First Logic
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First Logic is an introductory text covering numerous topics in logic. This third edition includes expanded exercise sets for all chapters, updated examples, and extended discussion of concepts such as inductive reasoning, truth trees, and natural deduction. Chapter one presents some of the core concepts of logic, including validity, soundness, argument recognition, and the distinctions between deduction and induction. Chapter two outlines some of...
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G. Polya (1887–1985) was one of the most influential mathematicians of the twentieth century. His basic research contributions span complex analysis, mathematical physics, probability theory, geometry, and combinatorics. He was a teacher par excellence who maintained a strong interest in pedagogical matters throughout his long career. Even after his retirement from Stanford University in 1953, he continued to lead an active mathematical life. He...
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En los contrarios y la tensión entre ellos, constituyentes del ser humano, William Blake descubrió fuerzas poéticas o creativas; el hombre es la unidad en la que se integran el paraíso y el infierno, los dioses y todos los mundos. Gilbert Keith Ches terton hizo de las paradojas un método de investigación. Franz Kafka convirtió la paradoja en estética y el enigma en poder configurativo. Kurt Gödel transmutó paradojas lógicas en puntos de...
11) A Change of Mind
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This is an unusual book-in many respects. It's born out of a frustration teaching Critical Thinking courses over the years and feeling that the most interesting issues raised in those courses are typically either ignored altogether, or quickly brushed aside, by the 'normal' Critical Thinking text. The effect was that a Critical Thinking course was a smattering of Baby Logic, some very simple Intro to Statistics and Probability, add in the usual Informal...
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2001
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Survey of British-born writers who produced texts on rhetoric or logic between 1500 and 1660. Provides biographies meant to serve students and scholars of British literature who require information on educators, theologians, and statesmen who influenced and shaped the rhetorical culture that produced great works of literature.
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2003
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Survey of British-born writers who produced texts on rhetoric or logic between 1500 and 1660. Provides biographies meant to serve students and scholars of British literature who require information on educators, theologians, and statesmen who influenced and shaped the rhetorical culture that produced great works of literature.
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Burt C. Hopkins presents the first in-depth study of the work of Edmund Husserl and Jacob Klein on the philosophical foundations of the logic of modern symbolic mathematics. Accounts of the philosophical origins of formalized concepts-especially mathematical concepts and the process of mathematical abstraction that generates them-have been paramount to the development of phenomenology. Both Husserl and Klein independently concluded that it is impossible...
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Robert Stalnaker is the Laurance S. Rockefeller Professor of Philosophy at Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of Our Knowledge of the Internal World,
Ways a World Might Be,
Context and Content, and Inquiry.
It seems reasonable to believe that there might have existed things other than those that in fact exist, or have existed. But how should we understand such claims? Standard semantic theories exploit...
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A study of the development of Dewey's logic from 1916-1937 leading up to his final 1938 book on the subject.
By 1916, Dewey had written two volumes on logical theory. Yet, in light of what he would write in his 1938 Logic: The Theory of Inquiry much remained to be done. Dewey did not yet have an adequate account of experience suitable to explain how our immediate experiencing becomes the material for logical sequences, series, and causal relations....
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In today's fast-paced digital world, the demand for skilled software developers is ever-growing. If you're looking to embark on a rewarding journey into the world of software development or seeking to expand your programming skills, "A Comprehensive Guide to Visual Basic .NET Programming" is your indispensable companion. Visual Basic .NET (VB.NET) is a powerful and versatile programming language in the .NET framework, widely recognized for its simplicity...
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The Problems of Philosophy, Bertrand Russell's enduring masterpiece, invites readers on an intellectual odyssey through the fundamental inquiries that have intrigued humanity for centuries. Russell skillfully introduces important theories of Plato, Aristotle, René Descartes, David Hume, John Locke, Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, and others to lay the foundation for philosophical inquiry by general readers and scholars alike. He frames...
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"Entfessle deine Genialität" lautet das Motto von Genialitätscoach Dr.-Ing. Andreas Lenniger, spezialisiert auf Menschen mit viel Köpfchen. Wer seine authentische Genialität entfesselt, der kann erleben, wie unsere genialen Gefühle magische Wirkung auf den Erfolg haben.
In der Folge verändern sich Menschen, für sich selbst Wege zurück in die eigene Leichtigkeit und zur Erfüllung ihrer Träume und Ziele zu sehen und zu gehen.
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