The Other Mathematics : : Language and Logic in Egyptian and in General / / Leo Depuydt.
This book is about attribute mathematics, in which nothing ever gets bigger or smaller. More specifically, it is about some of what attribute mathematics can do toward the full digitalization of thought and language. The matter is relevant not only directly to linguistics and philosophy but also ind...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Gorgias Press Backlist eBook-Package 2001-2013 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Piscataway, NJ : : Gorgias Press, , [2008] ©2008 |
| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Gorgias Studies in the Ancient Near East
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (396 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- 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