Elementary Logic. Revised Edition.

Orman Quine, Willard van:

ISBN 10: 0674244516 / ISBN 13: 9780674244511

Published by Harvard University Press, 1980

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XII; 129 S.; 21 cm; kart. Gutes Ex.; Einband gering berieben. - Englisch. - INHALT : Preface, 1980 ---- Preface to the Revised Edition ---- Preface to the 1941 Edition ---- Introduction ---- I STATEMENT COMPOSITION ---- Truth Values ---- Conjunction ---- Denial ---- 'Or' ---- 'But', 'although', 'unless' ---- 'If ---- General and Subjunctive Conditionals ---- 'Because', 'hence', 'that' ---- Reduction to Conjunction and Denial ---- Grouping ---- Verbal Cues to Grouping ---- Paraphrasing Inward ---- II TRUTH-FUNCTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS ---- Substitution in Truth-Functional Schemata ---- Instances ---- Equivalent Schemata ---- Truth-Functional Equivalence ---- Replacement ---- Transformation ---- Proofs of Equivalence ---- Alternation and Duality ---- Normal Schemata ---- Validity ---- Truth-Functional Truth ---- (u.v.a.) ISBN 0674244516 Sprache: Deutsch Gewicht in Gramm: 550.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Elementary Logic. Revised Edition.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1980
• Language: German
• ISBN 10: 0674244516
• ISBN 13: 9780674244511
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 3rd Edition
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Philosophie

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Synopsis

Now much revised since its first appearance in 1941, this book, despite its brevity, is notable for its scope and rigor. It provides a single strand of simple techniques for the central business of modern logic. Basic formal concepts are explained, the paraphrasing of words into symbols is treated at some length, and a testing procedure is given for truth-function logic along with a complete proof procedure for the logic of quantifiers. Fully one third of this revised edition is new, and presents a nearly complete turnover in crucial techniques of testing and proving, some change of notation, and some updating of terminology. The study is intended primarily as a convenient encapsulation of minimum essentials, but concludes by giving brief glimpses of further matters.

About the Author

W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.