Since Boole, symbolic logic has supplanted Aristotelian logic. Claude Shannon first applied Boolean algebra to electronic circuits. In this investigation, several facets of ancient Egyptian and its parallels in other languages are reinterpreted from the point of view of modern logic.
Author(s): Leo Depuydt
Publisher: Gorgias Press
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 395
City: Piscataway
CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
ABBREVIATIONS
INTRODUCTION: THE OTHER MATHEMATICS
1. TWO CONDITIONAL SENTENCE TYPES
2. BASIC CONCEPTS OF LOGIC
3. CONDITIONAL SENTENCE WITH JR AND THE BALANCED SENTENCE
4. LOGICAL PROPERTIES OF TYPES 1 AND 2
5. BALANCED SENTENCES AND LOGICAL TYPES 1 AND 2
6. FROM CONDITION TO PREMISE AND BACK
7. THE CONDITIO SINE QUA NON
8. THE BALANCED SENTENCE: COLLECTION OF EXAMPLES
9. PAST RESEARCH ON THE BALANCED SENTENCE
10. Jr sDm.f sDm.f AS A DEVELOPMENT FROM sDm.f sDm.f
11. LANGUAGE EVIDENCING GROWTH IN THE EXPRESSION OF LOGICAL THOUGHT
12. CONCLUDING REMARKS: SOME POSSIBLE GHOST PHENOMENA IN EGYPTIAN GRAMMAR
APPENDIX 1. CONDITION AND PREMISE IN EGYPTIAN AND ELSEWHERE AND THE LAWS OF THOUGHT IN EXPANDED BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
APPENDIX 2. CONTRAST IN EGYPTIAN AND IN GENERAL AND THE LAWS OF THOUGHT IN BOOLEAN ALGEBRA
APPENDIX 3. HOW THE MIND DRAWS INFERENCES THAT LEAD IT TO ACT AN ENGINEERING APPLICATION
APPENDIX 4. ERRATA IN PREVIOUS PUBLICATIONS
DEFINITIONS OF SOME KEY CONCEPTS
BIBLIOGRAPHY
INDEXES
