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Record Nr.

UNINA9910954298603321

Autore

Quine W. V (Willard Van Orman)

Titolo

Mathematical logic / / by Willard Van Orman Quine

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, MA, : Harvard University Press, c1981

ISBN

9780674042469

0674042468

Edizione

[Rev. ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xii, 346 pages)

Soggetti

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical

Mathematics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliography and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- PREFACE, 1981 -- PREFACE TO THE REVISED EDITION -- PREFACE -- CONTENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER ONE. Statelfzents -- 1. Conjunction, Alternation, and Denial -- 2. The Conditional -- 3. Iterated Composition -- 4. Use versus Mention -- 5. Statements about Statements -- 6. Quasi-Quotation -- 7. Parentheses and Dots -- 8. Reduction to Three Primitives -- 9. Reduction to One Primitive -- 10. Tautology -- 11. Selected Tautologous Forms -- CHAPTER TWO. Quantification -- 12. The Quantifier -- 13. Formulae -- 14. Bondage, Freedom, Closure -- 15. Axioms of Quantification -- 16. Theorems -- 17. Metatheorems -- 18. Substitutivity of the Biconditional -- 19. Existential Quantification -- 20. Distribution of Quantifiers -- 21. Alphabetic Variance -- CHAPTER THREE. Terms -- 22. Class and Member -- 23. Logical Formulae -- 24. Abstraction -- 25. Identity -- 26. Abstraction Resumed -- 27. Descriptions and Names -- CHAPTER FOUR. Extended Theory of Classes -- 28. Stratification -- 29. Further Axioms of Membership -- 30. Substitutivity of Identity -- 31. Substitution for Variables -- 32. Further Consequences -- 33. Logical Product, Sum, Complement -- 34. Inclusion -- 35. Unit Classes -- CHAPTER FIVE. Relations -- 36. Pairs and Relations -- 37. Abstraction of Relations -- 38. Converse, Image, Relative Product -- 39. The Ancestral -- 40. Functions -- 41. Abstraction of Functions -- 42. Identity and Membership as Relations -- CHAPTER SIX. Number -- 43.



Zero, One, Successor -- 44. Natural Numbers -- 45. Counter Sets -- 46. Finite and Infinite -- 47. Powers of Relations -- 48. Arithmetical Sum, Product, Power -- 49. Familiar Identities of Arithmetic -- 50. Ratios -- 51. Real Numbers -- 52. Further Extensions -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Syntax -- 53. Formality -- 54. The Syntactical Primitive -- 55. Protosyntax -- 56. Formula and Matrix Defined -- 57. Axioms of Quantification Defined -- 58. Theorem Defined -- 59. Protosyntax Self-Applied -- 60. Incompleteness -- APPENDIX. Theorem versus Metatheorem -- List of Definitions -- List of Theorems and Metatheorems -- Bibliographical References -- Index of Proper Names -- Index of Subjects

Sommario/riassunto

W. V. Quine's systematic development of mathematical logic has been widely praised for the new material presented and for the clarity of its exposition. This revised edition, in which the minor inconsistencies observed since its first publication have been eliminated, will be welcomed by all students and teachers in mathematics and philosophy who are seriously concerned with modern logic.Max Black, in Mind, has said of this book, "It will serve the purpose of inculcating, by precept and example, standards of clarity and precision which are, even in formal logic, more often pursued than achieved."