This book is one of the clearest, most comprehensive and rigorous introductions to modern symbolic logic available in any language. Professor Carnap, a world authority on symbolic logic, develops the subject from elementary concepts and simple exercises through the construction and analysis of a number of relatively complex logical languages. He then considers, in great detail, the application of symbolic logic to the clarification and axiomatization of various theories in mathematics, physics, and biology. Such topics as the nature and use of constants and variables, predicates, sentential connectives, truth-tables, universal and existential sentences, definitions, identity, isomorphism, syntactical and semantical systems and the relations between them, the system of types, varieties of relations, linear order, special operators, structures and cardinal numbers, descriptions, finite and infinite concepts, continuity, thing languages, coordinate languages, axiom systems for set theory, arithmetic, geometry, space-time topology, biological concepts, and many other subjects, are covered in detail. The logic of relations is given a particularly extensive treatment. Hundreds of problems, examples, and exercises are included to give students practice in the techniques of symbolic logic and their usage.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Dover Publications Inc.
ISBN-13
9780486604534
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96237967
Product Key Features
Book Title
Introduction to Symbolic Logic and Its Applications
Author
Rudolf Carnap
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2003
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
137mm
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Rudolf Carnap
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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