Logical Syntax Language by Carnap, First Edition (9 results)

Soft Cover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. First Paperback Printing in green wraps, no text markings, NOT ex-lib, panels rubbed, fade to spine (titles clear & legible), neat name, etc to endpaper edge, else clean tight copy of the 1st printing of the Smeaton translation; 8vo; xvi + 352pp indexed.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. Ix, 352 Pp + 8 Pp Catalog At End. Blue Cloth, Gilt. First Edition, 1937 Date On Title Page, Catalogs On Page Facing Title Page And On Front Flap Do Not Mention This Book, But Catalog At End Is Dated 1945 So This Is A 1945 Issue Of The 1937 First Edition, Uk Issue Which Preceded The American (Harcourt Brace) Issue. Book Very Good +, Gilt Brilliant, No Marks, Covers With Faint Trace Of Dampness Around Lower Edges. Dust Jacket With Publisher's 28- Price Label On Spine, A Re-Pricing For The 1945 Issue. Dust Jacket With Wear, Minute Losses,Clear Laminate Reinforcement Over Most Of Exterior, And Some Internal Brown Tape Repaits Which Leave Ghosts On The External Side.

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. Condition: Near Fine. 1st Edition in English, 2nd printing. xvi+352pp. Blue-green cloth with gilt spine lettering. Joints rubbed, light fraying to spine tips and corners, minor wear. Rare, clean copy.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. First Edition. Translated by Amethe Smeaton. Very Good, lacking the jacket. Blue buckram, rubbed and bumped at the edges and corners, with gilt lettering on the spine and front board. Firmly bound with a forward lean, presumed signature of philosopher John R. Gregg on the front endpaper. This edition is the first to feature twenty-two sections that were mistakenly kept from the original German edition.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First Edition. xvi, 352 pp; ads (dated 1945). Original cloth. Very Good+, without dust jacket.

Octavo. xvi, 352, [8 ads] pp. Green cloth with gilt spine. Former owner's ink signature, some light fraying at top and bottom of spine, edges foxed. Still, a very good, bright copy. First edition in English. International Library of Psychology, Philosophy and Scientific Method.

Soft cover. Condition: Near Fine. No Jacket. 1st Edition. TP + [III]-VII = Vorwort + IX-XI = Inhalt + [1]-274 + [275]-[276] = Publisher's Advertisements, Octavo. First Edition. "This exceptionally complex work attempted to carry out the positive part of the program sketched in 'The Overcoming of Metaphysics by the Logical Analysis of Language.' Metaphysics having been eliminated, and the very word philosophy having been gotten rid of (as Neurath wished), it remained to reconstruct the 'logic of science' - the syntax of scientific language - that was to replace metaphysics. Because syntactic propositions, no less than logical propositions, needed to be rigorously analyzed, the syntax had to be elaborated in terms of the language of science itself. This is the task Carnap sets for himself at the beginning of the book." (Delacampagne, p. 109) Original printed, light tan wraps, a bit of spotting. Uncut and unopened. A lovely NEAR-FINE copy of this important work in its original state. Housed in a custom slipcase with chemise. Book is also protected in an acid-free Mylar cover.

Translated by Amethe Smeaton. First edition in English. 8vo. xvi, 352, 8 [publisher's advertisements dated 1944] pp. Original blue cloth, spine lettered in gilt, front cover stamped in gilt (spotting to top edge, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; just a hint of faint marking to cloth, otherwise quite a sharp copy). London, Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd. The first English translation of one Carnap's main works, which developed the distinction between object language and meta-language that was characteristic of Hilbert's formalism. It also introduced Carnap?s distinction between language used in the material mode and in the formal mode. In the material mode, sentences which appear to be about things in the world are in fact syntactical, formal sentences about language. 'One purpose of this book, in opposition to the view attributed to Wittgenstein, was to show that a language could significantly be used to express its own syntax. Another was to make good Carnap?s claim that philosophy, to the extent that it could be a cognitive discipline, had to consist in the logic of science, which was itself. identified with the logical syntax of a scientific language' (A. J. Ayer). From the library the British physicist Dennis W. Sciama (1926-1999), with his ownership inscription dated '1947' in blue ink to the front free endpaper and with a Trinity College Cambridge Rouse Ball Mathematical Prize bookplate to the front pastedown, Sciama is best-known for his contributions to the fields of astrophysics and cosmology as well for having supervised Stephen Hawking's doctorate thesis on Properties of Expanding Universes (1966). .

FIRST EDITION. TP + [III]-VII = Vorwort + IX-XI = Inhalt + [1]-274 + [275]-[276] = Publisher's Advertisements, Octavo. First Edition. "This exceptionally complex work attempted to carry out the positive part of the program sketched in 'The Overcoming of Metaphysics by the Logical Analysis of Language.' Metaphysics having been eliminated, and the very word philosophy having been gotten rid of (as Neurath wished), it remained to reconstruct the 'logic of science' - the syntax of scientific language - that was to replace metaphysics. Because syntactic propositions, no less than logical propositions, needed to be rigorously analyzed, the syntax had to be elaborated in terms of the language of science itself. This is the task Carnap sets for himself at the beginning of the book." (Delacampagne, p. 109) Original printed, light tan wraps, a bit worn and with one small bit of the lower front corner missing. The spine is noticeably darker than the front or rear wraps. Uncut and unopened. A lovely copy of this important work its original state. ADDITIONAL PHOTOS AVAILABLE UPON REQUEST.