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Lesniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics

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Description for Lesniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics Paperback. Offering an expansive critical commentary, this meticulous assessment of the ground-breaking work of the philosopher Stanislaw Lesniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of work by a master logician of the Lvov-Warsaw school. Series: Trends in Logic. Num Pages: 242 pages, 3 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HPL; PBC; PDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 155 x 13. Weight in Grams: 379.

This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of philosopher Stanislaw  Leśniewski focuses exclusively on primary texts and explores the full range of output by one of the master logicians of the Lvov-Warsaw school. The author’s nuanced survey eschews secondary commentary, analyzing Leśniewski's core philosophical views and evaluating the formulations that were to have such a profound influence on the evolution of mathematical logic.  

One of the undisputed leaders of the cohort of brilliant logicians that congregated in Poland in the early twentieth century, Leśniewski was a guide and mentor to a generation of celebrated analytical philosophers (Alfred Tarski ... Read more

With material on his early philosophical views, his contributions to set theory and his work on nominalism and higher-order quantification, this book offers a uniquely expansive critical commentary on one of analytical philosophy’s great pioneers.​

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
Number of pages
242
Condition
New
Series
Trends in Logic
Number of Pages
229
Place of Publication
Cham, Switzerland
ISBN
9783319344164
SKU
V9783319344164
Shipping Time
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Ref
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Reviews for Lesniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics
“This is only the second monograph in English devoted to the logical work of Stanisław Leśniewski … . It contains helpful signposts to and discussion of the secondary literature, is much more in touch with logical orthodoxy, and each chapter has its own abstract and bibliography; so it can be dipped into as well as read from front to back. ... Read more

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