Edited by Rush Rhees (14 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Near Fine. First Edition. First Paperback Printing (stated) with full # line and original $6.95 price to rear panel, in white & red wraps, no markings, NOT ex-lib, no spine/cover creases, binding tight pages bright, as new unread First Printing; 8vo; 495pp.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. A Very Good book in a Very Good dust jacket. 8vo., 495 pp., bound in publishers black cloth with red dust jacket, $18.00. Jacket edges, tips and top/base of spine rubbed. Text edges dusty. Text appears unmarked. Dust jacket now protected in mylar sleeve. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was an Austro-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language.…

PAPERBACK. Condition: VG+ IN PRINTED WRAPS. TRANSLATED BY ANTHONY KENNY BOOK IS CLEAN AND UNMARKED WITH A CREASE AT THE FORE-EDGE OF THE FRONT COVER AND WATER TIDE MARK AT FOOT OF PAGES TO PRELIMINARY PAGES.

Soft Cover. Condition: Good. No Jacket. First Thus. From an academic library with the usual stamps etc.

Original Brown Cloth. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition Thus. 1975. First edition thus. 357pp. Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein (1889-1951) was a famous Austrian-British philosopher who worked primarily in logic, the philosophy of mathematics, the philosophy of mind, and the philosophy of language. This is the first English translation of the text known as 'Philosophische Bemerkungen' which was prepared in the summer of 1930 from material Wittgenstein had written between February 1929 and the beginning of May 1930. The first German edition appeared in 1964. The book contains the seeds of Wittgenstein's later philosophy of mind and of mathematics. Principally, he discusses the role of indispensable in language, criticizing Russell's The Analysis of Mind. He modifies the Tractatus's picture theory of meaning by stressing that the connection between the proposition and reality is not found in the picture itself. He analyzes generality in and out of mathematics, the notions of proof and experiment, formulates a pain/private-language argument and discusses both behaviorism and the verifiability principle. The book is bound in the original brown boards with gold titling on the spine. The case of the book is in very good condition and the contents are tight and clean. There is a translation of a quote from Augustine written in pencil on page 5 and a name, place and date (1975) has been neatly written in ink on the front free endpaper. The unclipped dustwrapper is very good with some shelf wear and the spine is noticeably faded. The wrapper is in a removable clear protective cover.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Rhees's notes and commentary on Wittgenstein's last work, On Certainty; Rhees was a friend of Wittgenstein's and an important interpreter of his work. Editor Phillips discusses how this book was assembled, and the then-current state of scholarship related to On Certainty. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; light wear to book & jacket; near fine. Text clean; x, 195 pages; appendixes, notes, index. Size: Octavo.…

8vo, 491pp. A very good hardback copy with tape offset marks to endpapers. Dust jacket is very good & slightly shelf worn. Text in German.

8vo, 348pp. A very good hardback copy, in like slightly shelf worn dust jacket. German text.

Hardcover. 2nd impression. 500 p.; front. (port.); 22 cm. 17 papers (The mathematical analysis of logic,1847: title-page in facsimile) [1st thus 1952] From preface by A. E. Heath: `George Boole's principal work was The Laws of Thought, published in 1854. In 1916 this was reprinted by The Open Court Publishing Company as Volume II of his Logical Works. Volume I was promised, and was to include Boole's miscellaneous writings on logical subjects, together with his papers on related questions of probability. The book which now appears, under the editorship, at my suggestion, of Mr. R. Rhees,is a delayed fulfilment of that promise. Among the notes passed on to me by the late P.E.B. Jourdain there were references to important Boole manuscripts in the Library of the Royal Society. Mr. Rhees has been given access to these. They include material, later than The Laws of Thought and contemporary with his last articles on probability, which shows interesting developments in Boole's views on the nature of logic.There are also earlier writings onthe application of his logical calculus tothe theory of probabil ities. By permission of the Royal Society some of these papers, either in full or in abstract, are included. The Royal Society mss also contained Boole's own interleaved copy of his earlier book The Mathematical Analysis of Logic, with a number of hitherto unpublished notes and revisions. This work, with Boole's more significant emendations, is reproduced here.' -- App. A. George Boole, F.R.S., Robert Harley (1866); B. On the theory of chances developed in Professor Boole's "Laws of Thought", Henry Wilbraham (1854); C. On the possibility of combining two or more probabilities of the same event, so as to form one definite probabity, by Bishop Terrot (1856). VG orig. violet cloth in price-clipped tan dj.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 495 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Fine In Fine Dj Priced L7.00, Very Slight Fading To Spine Panel. Ownership Signature Of N. K. --. Dated 29/8/79. Very Slight Fading To Spine Of Dj.

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 495 Pp. Black Cloth, Gilt. First Printing. Small Stamp Of Valliol Colge Library, Top And Bottom Of Page Block, And Their Bookplate With A Presentation Annotation By A. J. P. Kenny Dated 1974. Fine In Fine Dj Priced L7.00.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. REPRINT: "first published 1979", "reprinted 1983, 1987, 1989" and "reprinted with English text reset 1991" stated. Near fine 38 page, 8.5 inch by 6 inch saddle-stapled brochure in laminated paper covers. Only minor, if not trivial signs of age/wear/previous use: primarily to lower fore-edge corners of covers and trivial sun-fading along edges of covers.…

Hardcover. Condition: Excellent. Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition. A Very Solid Book, Marred Very Slightly By A Couple Of Lines Of Text Underlined Otherwise Very Clean. . Tan Cloth Covered Boards With Bright Gilt Title On Spine. No Apparent Shelf Wear. Glossy, Bright Red Dj Is Price Clipped Otherwise Intact. Bottom Front Corner Has Small Crease Otherwise Could Have Been Described As Fine.…

Hard Cover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. First American Edition. Transcriptions of 31 lectures based on the notes of four of Wittgenstein's students; the lectures dealt with the relationship between mathematics and its application; propositions; logic & mathematics. As the lectures dealt with these topics "more fully and clearly" than Wittgenstein's own writings, it was felt this compiled version would help scholars better understand his ideas. Hardcover in jacket, as pictured; the first American edition. Light wear to book, minor binding flaw inside rear cover; jacket shows minor wear but faded spine. Minor pencil markings erased, text believed clean; 300 pages + colophon; index, a few figures & equations. Size: Octavo.…