Russell's hidden substitutional theory / Gregory Landini.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Landini, Gregory, author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Proposition (Logic)--History--20th century.

Proposition (Logic).

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical--History--20th century.

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Local Subjects:

Russell, Bertrand, 1872-1970.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (350 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Bibliography: p325-332. - Includes index.

Previously issued in print: 1998.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 325-332) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773158-9

1-280-47029-1

0-19-535372-2

0-585-32906-0

OCLC:

559913921