Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory
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Book details
- Author
- Gregory Landini
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Category
- History & Schools of Thought
- Condition
- New
- ISBN-13
- 9780195116830
- ISBN-10
- 0195116836
- Vendor: Mia Karts
Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory
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ISBN: 0195116836
Author: Landini, Gregory
Condition: New
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 The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory.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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