Elementary Logic: Revised Edition

Quine

ISBN 10: 0674244516 / ISBN 13: 9780674244511

Published by Harvard University Press, 1980

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Synopsis:

Much revised since its first appearance in 1941, Willard Van Orman Quine’s Elementary Logic, 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.

About the Author: W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Elementary Logic: Revised Edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication Date: 1980
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: good
Edition: 3rd Edition