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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.
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Elementary Logic, Willard Van Orman Quine
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- Released
- 1981
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- Title
- Elementary Logic
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Released
- 1981
- Format
- Paperback
- Pages
- 144
- ISBN10
- 0674244516
- ISBN13
- 9780674244511
- Series
- Tags
- Non-Fiction, Social Sciences, Science & Math, References & Manuals, Philosophy, Science, Mathematics, Logic
- Rating
- 3.9 out of 5
- Description
- 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.