Logic and Society: Contradictions and Possible Worlds

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Author(s): Jon Elster
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd
Year: 1978

Language: English
Pages: 241

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS......Page 4
CONTENTS......Page 5
INTRODUCTION: LOGIC AND SOCIETY......Page 7
1 FORMAL LOGIC - AN INFORMAL EXPOSITION......Page 16
2 POSSIBILISTIC REASONING IN THE SOCIAL SCIENCES......Page 34
3 POLITICAL POSSIBILITY......Page 54
4 CONTRADICTIONS OF THE MIND......Page 71
5 CONTRADICTIONS OF SOCIETY......Page 102
6 COUNTERFACTUALS AND THE NEW ECONOMIC HISTORY......Page 181
REFERENCES......Page 227
INDEX......Page 239