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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778719503321

Autore

Landini Gregory

Titolo

Russell's hidden substitutional theory [[electronic resource] /] / Gregory Landini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Oxford University Press, 1998

ISBN

0-19-773158-9

1-280-47029-1

0-19-535372-2

0-585-32906-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 p.)

Disciplina

160/.92

Soggetti

Proposition (Logic) - History - 20th century

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical - History - 20th century

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-332) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; Quodlibet Ens Est Unum; Overview; 1 Russell's Logicist Program; 2 The Logic of The Principles of Mathematics; 3 The New Theory of the Variable; 4 The Logic of Substitution; 5 The ""No Propositional Functions"" Theory; 6 The ""No-Classes"" Theory; 7 The ""No-Relations[sub(e)]"" Theory; 8 Les Paradoxes de la Logique; 9 Mathematical Logic as Based on the Theory of Types; 10 The Logic of Principia Mathematica; Appendix A: Proof of the Peano Postulates; Appendix B: Axioms, Theorems, and Definitions; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R

ST; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Explores a central thread unifying Russell's thoughts on logic in two works considered at odds with each other: ""Principles of Mathematics"" and ""Principia Mathematica"". The thread states that logic is an absolutely general science and any calculus for it must embrace unrestricted variables.