A survey of symbolic logic.

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Author / Creator:Lewis, Clarence Irving, 1883-1964.
Imprint:Bristol, England ; Sterling, Va. : Thoemmes Press, 2001.
Description:vi, 327 pages ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/4415567
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ISBN:185506880X
9781855068803
Table of Contents:
  • Ch. I. The Development of Symbolic Logic
  • Sect. I. The Scope of Symbolic Logic. Symbolic Logic and Logistic. Summary Account of their Development
  • Sect. II. Leibniz
  • Sect. III. From Leibniz to De Morgan and Boole
  • Sect. IV. De Morgan
  • Sect. V. Boole
  • Sect. VI. Jevons
  • Sect. VII. Peirce
  • Sect. VIII. Developments since Peirce
  • Ch. II. The Classic, or Boole-Schroder Algebra of Logic
  • Sect. I. General Character of the Algebra. The Postulates and their Interpretation
  • Sect. II. Elementary Theorems
  • Sect. III. General Properties of Functions
  • Sect. IV. Fundamental Laws of the Theory of Equations
  • Sect. V. Fundamental Laws of the Theory of Inequations
  • Sect. VI. Note on the Inverse Operations, "Subtraction" and "Division"
  • Ch. III. Applications of the Boole-Schroder Algebra
  • Sect. I. Diagrams for the Logical Relations of Classes
  • Sect. II. The Application to Classes
  • Sect. III. The Application to Propositions
  • Sect. IV. The Application to Relations
  • Ch. IV. Systems Based on Material Implication
  • Sect. I. The Two-Valued Algebra
  • Sect. II. The Calculus of Propositional Functions. Functions of One Variable
  • Sect. III. Propositional Functions of Two or More Variables
  • Sect. IV. Derivation of the Logic of Classes from the Calculus of Propositional Functions
  • Sect. V. The Logic of Relations
  • Sect. VI. The Logic of Principia Mathematica. App. Fragments from Leibniz.