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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