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Russell's hidden substitutional theory

By Gregory Landini

Book information

Publisher
Oxford University Press
Year
1998
ISBN
9780195116830, 0195116836
LCC
B1649.R94 L36 1998
Open Library ID
OL676502M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
2 MB (2469799 bytes)
Pages
350\350
Topic
Mathematics Logic
Library
Kolxo3
DPI
300
Time added
2009-07-20 03:45:11

Description

This book explores an important central thread that unifies Russell's thoughts on logic in two works previously considered at odds with each other, the Principles of Mathematics and the later Principia Mathematica. This thread is Russell's doctrine that logic is an absolutely general science and that any calculus for it must embrace wholly unrestricted variables. The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory. On Landini's showing, the substitutional theory reveals the unity of Russell's philosophy of logic and offers new avenues for a genuine solution of the paradoxes plaguing Logicism.

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