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Record Nr.

UNINA9911147305203321

Autore

Landini Gregory

Titolo

Russell's hidden substitutional theory / / Gregory Landini

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

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

Bibliography: p325-332. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

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

Landini shows that Russell's work exhibits greater consistency than previously thought. Russell's thoughts on logic are considered to be flawed yet he nevertheless attempted to salvage the guiding idea of his principal theory on the subject.