Set Theory and Its Logic: Revised Edition

Quine, Willard Van Orman

ISBN 10: 0674802071 / ISBN 13: 9780674802070

Published by Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press, 1971

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Set Theory and Its Logic: Revised Edition
• Publisher: Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
• Publication Date: 1971
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674802071
• ISBN 13: 9780674802070
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: 2nd Edition
• Condition: Very good

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Synopsis

This is an extensively revised edition of W. V. Quine’s introduction to abstract set theory and to various axiomatic systematizations of the subject. The treatment of ordinal numbers has been strengthened and much simplified, especially in the theory of transfinite recursions, by adding an axiom and reworking the proofs. Infinite cardinals are treated anew in clearer and fuller terms than before.

Improvements have been made all through the book; in various instances a proof has been shortened, a theorem strengthened, a space-saving lemma inserted, an obscurity clarified, an error corrected, a historical omission supplied, or a new event noted.

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.