There is no statutory requirement that formal logic be adhered to during examination of patent claims. Examiners and patent practitioners are free to use a wide variety of discussion and argument ...

This course is compulsory on the BSc in Philosophy, Politics and Economics. This course is available as an outside option to students on other programmes where regulations permit and to General Course ...

“THROUGHOUT this book ‘formal’ logic is identified not only with the logic which expressly calls itself formal, or ‘deductive,’ but with any logic which, like the ordinary ‘inductive’ logic, is, in ...

Description: A first course in formal deductive logic; mechanical and other procedures for distinguishing good arguments from bad. Truth-tables and proofs for sentential (Boolean) connectives, ...