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- Title
William James and a New Way of Thinking about Logic.
- Authors
Davis, Philip E.
- Abstract
The article presents a discussion related to the philosopher William James and a new way of thinking about logic. James takes aim at what he calls the "axiom of skipped intermediaries," both in his books "Principles of Psychology" and in the Appendix to "A Pluralistic Universe." In the latter he defines it as a serial principle of which the foundation of logic, the dictum de omni et nullo, is the most familiar instance. Examples of the serial law, he says, are more than the more is more than the less, equals of equals are equal, sames of the same are the same, the cause of a cause is the cause of its effect.
- Subjects
JAMES, William, 1842-1910; LOGIC; PHILOSOPHY; CRITICAL thinking; PRINCIPLES of Psychology, The (Book : James); PLURALISTIC Universe, A (Book)
- Publication
Southern Journal of Philosophy, 2005, Vol 43, Issue 3, p337
- ISSN
0038-4283
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.2041-6962.2005.tb01957.x