Elementary logic / Willard Van Orman Quine.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman), author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Logic, Symbolic and mathematical.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (145 pages)

Edition:

Revised edition.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [1980]

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Now much revised since its first appearance in 1941, W. V. 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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

1. Introduction

I . STATEMENT COMPOSITION

II • TRUTH-FuNCTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS

III • QUANTIFICATION

IV • QUANTIFICA TIONAL INFERENCE

Index

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-674-04249-2