Paul Welsh (September 11, 1911 - August 29, 2004) was an American philosopher and professor of philosophy at

Duke University Duke University is a Private university, private research university in Durham, North Carolina, United States. Founded by Methodists and Quakers in the present-day city of Trinity, North Carolina, Trinity in 1838, the school moved to Durham in 1 ...

. He was a member of

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and is known for his works on

logic Logic is the study of correct reasoning. It includes both formal and informal logic. Formal logic is the study of deductively valid inferences or logical truths. It examines how conclusions follow from premises based on the structure o ...

Books

* ''Introduction to logic'', Romane Clark and Paul Welsh, D. Van Nostrana Company, Inc., Princeton, N.J., Toronto, New York, London, 1962 * ''Fact, Value, and Perception: Essays in Honor of Charles A. Baylis'', Duke University Press 1975

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20th-century American philosophers American philosophy academics 1911 births 2004 deaths Cornell University alumni Cornell University faculty Duke University faculty University of Iowa faculty Bowdoin College alumni {{US-philosopher-stub