How the Validity of the Parallel Inference is Possible: From the Ancient Mohist Diagnose to a Modern Logical Treatment of Its Semantic-Syntactic Structure

History and Philosophy of Logic 37 (4):301-324 (2016)
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The purpose of this paper is to explore the issue of how the validity of the parallel inference is possible in view of its deep semantic-syntactic structure. I fi...

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10.1080/01445340.2016.1169150

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