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Tables of Contents for I Think, Therefore I Laugh
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Preface to the Second Edition
ix
Two Unlikely Pairs of Men
1
12
Introduction
2
2
Wittgenstein and Carroll
4
4
Groucho Meets Russell
8
5
Logic
13
50
Either-Or
14
6
You Bet Your Life
20
3
Sillygisms
23
7
The Titl of This Section Contains Three Erors
30
5
Russell's Dr. Goldberg and Dr. Rubin
35
5
Language and Metalanguage: Do You Get It?
40
8
Meaning, Reference, and Dora Black's First Husband
48
4
Analytic vs. Synthetic, Boole vs. Boyle, and Mathematics vs. Cookery
52
6
Miscellany
58
5
Science
63
68
Induction, Causality, and Hume's Eggs
64
7
The Tortoise Came First
71
5
Of Birds and Strange Colors
76
7
Truths, Half-Truths, and Statistics
83
6
Duhem, Poincare, and the Poconos-Catskill Diet
89
6
Reductionism, Fallibilism, and Opportunism
95
7
Randomness and the Berry Task
102
8
Determinism and Smart Computers
110
4
Bell's Inequality and Weirdness
114
10
On Assumptions
124
7
People
131
30
Context, Complexity, and Artificial Intelligence
132
7
Why Did He Just Now Touch His Head
139
11
Arrow, Prisoners, and Compromise
150
11
Afterword
161
6
Bibliography
167
6
Index
173