Elementary Logic: Revised Edition (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780674244511)

Much revised since its first appearance in 1941, Willard Van Orman 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.

Author: Willard Van Orman Quine
ISBN-10: 0674244516
ISBN-13: 9780674244511
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Language: English
Published: 10/15/1980
Pages: 144
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.35lbs
Size: 8.22h x 5.28w x 0.37d