Logic on the Track of Social ChangeThe book sets out a new logic of rules, developed to demonstrate how such a logic can contribute to the clarification of historical questions about social rules. The authors illustrate applications of this new logic in their extensive treatments of a variety of accounts of social changes, analysing in these examples the content of particular social rules and the course of changes in them. |
Contents
a Definition | 30 |
Logical Preliminaries to a Formal Theory of Rules | 54 |
The Logic of Rules | 69 |
Who Controls the Marriage Decision? Stone | 98 |
On Peasant and Capitalist | 128 |
Justice in the Marxist Dialectic of Rules | 143 |
A RulesAnalysis following Foucault of | 171 |
The Opposition Intended or Real of the | 192 |
The Abolition of the British Slave Trade | 213 |
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