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Contents


I.  Logical Reflections ........................................................................................................ 5 
Book 1.  HUME’S PROBLEMS WITH INDUCTION ................................................. 6 
1.  Hume’s “problem of induction” ............................................................................ 7 
2.  The principle of induction ................................................................................... 11 
3.  Causation, necessity and connection ................................................................... 16 
4.  The psychology of induction ............................................................................... 21 
5.  The self or soul .................................................................................................... 29 
6.  Freewill ................................................................................................................ 33 
7.  The is-ought dichotomy ....................................................................................... 35 
8.  Hempel's paradox of confirmation ...................................................................... 38 
9.  Goodman’s paradox of prediction ....................................................................... 47 
10.  The induction of induction .................................................................................. 53 
11.  Descartes’ mind-body dichotomy ........................................................................ 57 
12.  Some further remarks on causal logic ................................................................. 62 
13.  Addenda (2009) ................................................................................................... 69 
Book 2.  A SHORT CRITIQUE OF KANT’S UNREASON ...................................... 72 
1.  Kant’s transcendental reality ............................................................................... 73 
2.  The analytic-synthetic dichotomy ....................................................................... 83 
3.  Theory of knowledge ........................................................................................... 93 
4.  Experience, space and time ................................................................................. 98 
5.  Kant’s “categories” ............................................................................................ 108 
6.  Ratiocinations .................................................................................................... 118 
7.  How numbers arise ............................................................................................ 126 
8.  Geometrical logic .............................................................................................. 130 
9.  Addenda (2009-10) ............................................................................................ 135 
Book 3.  IN DEFENSE OF ARISTOTLE’S LAWS OF THOUGHT ...................... 138 
1.  Logicians have to introspect .............................................................................. 139 
2.  The primacy of the laws of thought ................................................................... 143 
3.  The ontological status of the laws ..................................................................... 148 
4.  Fuzzy logic ........................................................................................................ 150 
5.  Misrepresentation of Aristotle ........................................................................... 153 
6.  Not on the geometrical model ........................................................................... 158 
7.  A poisonous brew .............................................................................................. 161 
8.  The game of one-upmanship ............................................................................. 165 
9.  In Buddhist discourse ........................................................................................ 168 
10.  Calling what is not a spade a spade ................................................................... 173 
11.  Buddhist causation theory ................................................................................. 176 
12.  A formal logic of change ................................................................................... 179 
13.  Buddhist critique of change ............................................................................... 181 
14.  Different strata of knowledge ............................................................................ 184 
15.  Impermanence ................................................................................................... 187 
16.  Buddhist denial of the soul ................................................................................ 191 
17.  The status of sense perceptions ......................................................................... 195 
18.  The status of dreams and daydreams ................................................................. 199 
19.  The status of conceptions .................................................................................. 202 
20.  The laws of thought in meditation ..................................................................... 205 
21.  Reason and spirituality ...................................................................................... 208 
22.  Addenda (2010) ................................................................................................. 211 
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