Journal article
Logic in Russell's Principles of Mathematics
Notre Dame journal of formal logic, Vol.37(4), pp.554-584
10/01/1996
DOI: 10.1305/ndjfl/1040046142
Abstract
Unaware of Frege’s 1879 Begriffsschrift, Russell’s 1903 The Principles of Mathematics set out a calculus for logic whose foundation was the doctrine that any such calculus must adopt only one style of variables—entity (individual) variables. The idea was that logic is a universal and all- encompassing science, applying alike to whatever there is—propositions, universals, classes, concrete particulars. Unfortunately, Russell’s early calculus has appeared archaic if not completely obscure. This paper is an attempt to re- cover the formal system, showing its philosophical background and its semantic completeness with respect to the tautologies of a modern sentential calculus. © 1996 by the University of Notre Dame. All rights reserved.
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Logic in Russell's Principles of Mathematics
- Creators
- Gregory Landini
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Notre Dame journal of formal logic, Vol.37(4), pp.554-584
- DOI
- 10.1305/ndjfl/1040046142
- ISSN
- 0029-4527
- eISSN
- 1939-0726
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 10/01/1996
- Academic Unit
- Philosophy
- Record Identifier
- 9984397183202771
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