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PublisherHarvard University Press

ISBN-100674798376

ISBN-139780674798373

eBay Product ID (ePID)605983

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Number of Pages320 Pages

Publication NameSelected Logic Papers : Enlarged Edition

LanguageEnglish

SubjectGeneral, Logic

Publication Year1995

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics, Philosophy

AuthorWillard Van Orman Quine

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.1 in

Item Weight13 Oz

Item Length0.8 in

Item Width0.6 in

Additional Product Features

Edition Number2

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN94-028372

Dewey Edition20

ReviewsWhat [Quine] is expert in is, of course, logic...What [this book offers] is a view of the expert at work. Selected Logic Papers shows him actually doing logic...Logic is not a guide to life, but then Quine has never maintained that it was. It is a powerful adjunct to empirical inquiry, whose proper use requires prior discipline; its virtue lies in the fact that if we supply it with truth, it will never yield falsehood. Few have shown the manner of its use with more authority., This book is of continuing, not just historical interest. Quine is the greatest American philosopher of the twentieth century. His work in logic is inseparable from his work in other parts of philosophy., [Quine] is at once the most elegant expounder of systematic logic in the older, pre-GÖdelian style of Frege and Russell, the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank...This is an amazing feat of condensation with something solid to say in its brief scope about every major topic of interest in modern formal logic., [Quine] is at once the most elegant expounder of systematic logic in the older, pre-Gödelian style of Frege and Russell, the most distinguished American recruit to logical empiricism, probably the contemporary American philosopher most admired in the profession, and an original philosophical thinker of the first rank... This is an amazing feat of condensation with something solid to say in its brief scope about every major topic of interest in modern formal logic., What [Quine] is expert in is, of course, logic... What [this book offers] is a view of the expert at work. Selected Logic Papers shows him actually doing logic... Logic is not a guide to life, but then Quine has never maintained that it was. It is a powerful adjunct to empirical inquiry, whose proper use requires prior discipline; its virtue lies in the fact that if we supply it with truth, it will never yield falsehood. Few have shown the manner of its use with more authority.

Dewey Decimal511/.3

Edition DescriptionEnlarged edition,Revised edition

SynopsisFor more than two generations, W. V. Quine has contributed fundamentally to the substance, the pedagogy, and the philosophy of mathematical logic. Selected Logic Papers , long out of print and now reissued with eight additional essays, includes much of the author's important work on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics from the past sixty years., Selected Logic Papers , long out of print and now reissued with eight additional essays, includes much of the author's important work on mathematical logic and the philosophy of mathematics from the past sixty years.

LC Classification NumberB945.Q53S45 1995