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asked 9 years ago

peace,
I would be happy if you could advise me about a book that you think teaches logic at a high level,
Husserl? Russell? Brentano? Frege?
Oh and I read German and English freely.
All the best to you,

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מיכי Staff answered 9 years ago

All of these are interesting, but if you want to start studying logic systematically, go with what I sent you. There’s also Alex Bloom’s book, but it’s not easy. Leave it for last. The first two are the most important.
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Asks:
thanks,
By the way, it seems that Husserl had a great influence on you, relative to the person you described as not being sharp and clear…

In Problems of Philosophy, Russell criticizes Kant in a deadly way and it seems that he clearly does not hold him in. Do you agree with his arguments there against the GRA?
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Rabbi:
He didn’t influence me at all. I found some of my ideas later in his writings (which I didn’t read extensively either).
I don’t remember Russell’s arguments against Kant. If there is anything specific, maybe try to address it.
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Asks:
So, after all, the only person on the globe from whom you gleaned insights was Kant, huh?
I’ll check on Russell and get back to you.
Finally, could you perhaps give me some names of philosophers who were great at logic (I don’t have the energy to waste time on the less brilliant, like Hegel and Schopenhauer, who simply made me end my life…)
And by the way, you are a king and you also type at the speed of light.
May your strength be exalted.
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Rabbi:
On the subject of influences, I just wrote about Harari’s article on the complex nature of ideological influences. I assume it will be uploaded to the Responsa website shortly.
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Israel:
peace.
I would love to know, if possible, which 2 books you recommend starting with.
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Rabbi:
I didn’t understand. What do you mean by how to start with logic? I’m not sure I’m up to date because I did it a long time ago. But I recommend Irving M. Coffey’s book, Introduction to Logic. And then if you manage to get through Bergman’s Introduction to Logic, you can continue with it. For enrichment, it’s interesting to see Logic for Thinkers and Computers by Polkov Ebron (it has technical parts of computer science). For some reason, my recommendations to the original questioner were omitted here.

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