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RADHIKA HERZBERGER, Bhartrhari and the Buddhists. An essay in the development of fifth and sixth century Indian thought. Dordrecht, Boston, Lancaster, Tokyo: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1986. xxvi + 252 pp. DF1.145/$64/£40.25.     

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Making human beings human: Bioecological perspectives on human development : Edited by U. Bronfenbrenner Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications. 2004. Pp. 336. Paperback, $34.95. ISBN 0761927123. Hardback, $74.95. ISBN 0761927115     

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B. Russell, Foundations of logic 1903-05, The Collected Papers of Bertrand Russell, Volume 4, Edited by Urquhart, A. with the assistance of Lewis, A. C. London and New York:Routledge, 1994, Hi+ 743 pp. £100     

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D. GABBAY and F. GUENTHNER (eds.), Handbook of philosophical logic. Volume 1: Elements of classical logic. Dordrecht, Boston, and Lancaster: D. Reidel Publishing Company, 1983. xiv + 497 pp. Dfl225/$98.00.     

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Belief in God in an Age of Science , by John Polkinghorne
Genes, Genesis and God: Values and their Origins in Natural and Human History , by Holmes Rolston, III
The Genetic Gods: Evolution and Belief in Human Affairs , by John C. Avise     

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Stephen Read, Philosophie der Logik. Eine Einführung, übersetzt von Martin Suhr. Reinbek bei Hamburg:Rowohlt Taschenbuch Verlag GmbH, 1997. 312 pp, 26.90 DM (paper)

Peter Millican and Andy Clark (eds.), Machines and thought—the legacy of Alan Turing, I, Introduction by P. Millican. Oxford:Clarendon Press, 1996. 297 pp. £30.00. ISBN 0-19-823593-3

Roberto Pou and Peter M. Simons (eds.) Formal Ontology. Dordrecht:Kluwer, 1996. viii + 293 pp. DF1 220, $135, £99. ISBN 0792 34104x

Jaakko Hintikka, The principles of mathematics revisited. Cambridge:Cambridge University Press, 1996. xii + 288. No price stated. ISBN 0 521 49692 6

Luis Vega Reñón, Una guia de historia de la logica. Madrid:Universidad Nacional de Educacion a Distancia, 1996. 271 pp. No price stated. ISBN 84 362 3372 7

Barry Smith, Austrian philosophy. The legacy of Franz Brentano. Chicago and La Salle, 111.:Open Court, 1994 (pbk 1996). xii + 381 pp. No price stated. ISBN 0 81260 9256 X

Hans Hahn, Gesammelte Abhandlungen, 3. Edited by L. Schmetterer and K. Sigmund. Vienna and New York:Springer, 1997.xiii + 581 pp. DM 198/Ös. 1386. ISBN 3 211 82781 1

Susan Haack, Deviant logic, fuzzy logic. Fuzzy logic, Beyond the formalism. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xxvi+292pp. No price stated. ISBN 0 226 31133 3 (cloth)/311341 (pbk)     

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The incompleteness and artificiality of the ‘traditional logic’ of the textbooks is reflected in the way that syllogisms are commonly enumerated. The number said to be valid varies, but all the numbers given are of a kind that logicians should find irritating. Even the apparent harmony of what is almost invariably said to be the total number of syllogisms, 256, turns out to be illusory. In the following, it is shown that the concept of a distribution-value, which is related to the traditional theory of distribution, and the familiar concept of quantity together suffice to produce a far better way of enumerating syllogisms and a more complete understanding of the systematic features of syllogistic logic.     

Book Review Essay

Book reviewed in this article: Trauma, violence and psychoanalysis September 11: Trauma and human bonds Edited by Susan W. Coates, Jane L. Rosenthal and Daniel S. Schechter Violence or dialogue? Psychoanalytic insights on terror and terrorism Edited by Sverre Varvin and Vamik D. Volkan     

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I thank John Kerr for his long and detailed review of my Freud biography and note our major points of agreement and disagreement. Kerr and I both see the wisdom of placing Freud in the context of the major relationships of his life as opposed to viewing him as a self-created hero. We also note the value of using contemporary ideas and research, much of them based on the foundation that Freud erected, to loop back and understand him in new ways. I believe, more strongly than Kerr, that Freud's early traumatic losses, and the way he came to terms with them—or did not—in his self-analysis, had long-lasting effects on his character, relationships, and psychoanalytic theory and therapy. Several minor points of agreement and disagreement are also discussed.