Methods of logic. / Willard Van Orman Quine Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy Harvard University.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)

Contributor:

The Library of Chaim Potok (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

Holt-Dryden book

Holt-Dryden book.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic.

Penn Provenance:

Potok, Adena (donor) (Potok Collection copy)

Potok, Chaim (autograph) (Potok Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xix pages, 3 unnumbered pages, 272 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.

Edition:

[Revised edition].

Place of Publication:

New York : Holt, Rinehart and Winston, [1959]

Contents:

Part I. Truth Functions. Negation, conjunction, and alternation; Truth functions; The conditional; Grouping; Truth-value analysis; Consistency and validity; Implication; Words into symbols; Equivalence; Normal schemata; Duality

Part II. Uniform Quantification. Categorical statements; Venn's diagrams; Syllogisms; Limits of these methods; Quantification; Uniform quantificational schemata; Validity; Equivalence, canonical schemata; Testing for consistency; Testing for implication

Part III.Quantification extended; Quantificational schemata and predicates; Validity of quantificational schemata; Substitution in quantificational schemata; Laws of implication; Deduction; Completion of the method; Deductive technique; Polyadic problems. Conversion of quantifiers; Application; Nature of quantification theory

Part IV. Glimpses Beyond. Existence and singular inference; Singular terms versus general terms; Identity; Descriptions; Elimination of singular terms; Classes; Number; Relations; Class theory, mathematics, and the theory of proof; Variant theories of classes.

Notes:

Contains Foreword to the Revised Edition (p. [vi]).

Includes bibliographical references (261-266) and index.

Local Notes:

Potok Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries by Adena Potok.

Potok Collection copy has autograph of "Herman Potok November 1962 Philadelphia".

Potok Collection copy has "July, 1961" printed on title page verso.

Potok Collection has series statement wanting.

Potok Collection copy has ms. annotation.

OCLC:

374898