Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive - Softcover

Jevons, W Stanley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1410202704 ISBN 13: 9781410202703

Publisher: University Press of the Pacific, 2002

Synopsis

W. Stanley Jevons, a pupil of Augustus de Morgan, was a major figure in the field of logic and economics. He was at the University of Manchester from 1866-1876. He then became professor of political economy at University College London, resigning in 1880. The main book of this period was Studies and Exercises in Deductive Logic (1884). He simplified and corrected Boole's earlier work on logic. His first work, The Coal Question (1865), was written on coal distribution, attracted the attention of Gladstone, who was the first to make Jevons well-known in economics. His work on pure logic is very important. Jevons died by accidental drowning, probably the result of a heart attack, off the coast of Kent. The present work's chief purpose was the promotion of practical training in logic.

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W. Stanley Jevons (1835-1882) was one of the first great virtuoso scholars in economics. He was author of Theory of Political Economy; The Coal Question; Money and the Mechanism of Exchange; Pure Logic, or the Logic of Quality apart from Quantity; The Principles of Science: A Treatise on Logic and Scientific Method; and Methods of Social Reform and Other Papers.

Edition details

• Publisher: University Press of the Pacific
• Publication date: 2002
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1410202704
• ISBN 13: 9781410202703
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 356