Boole's logic and probability a critical exposition from the standpoint of contemporary algebra, logic, and probability theory
Since the publication of the first edition in 1976, there has been a notable increase of interest in the development of logic. This is evidenced by the several conferences on the history of logic, by a journal devoted to the subject, and by an accumulation of new results. This increased activity and...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Amsterdam, Netherlands
North-Holland Pub. Co.
1986, 1986
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| Edition: | 2nd ed., rev. and enl |
| Series: | Studies in logic and the foundations of mathematics
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| Collection: | Elsevier eBook collection Mathematics - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | Since the publication of the first edition in 1976, there has been a notable increase of interest in the development of logic. This is evidenced by the several conferences on the history of logic, by a journal devoted to the subject, and by an accumulation of new results. This increased activity and the new results - the chief one being that Boole's work in probability is best viewed as a probability logic - were influential circumstances conducive to a new edition. Chapter 1, presenting Boole's ideas on a mathematical treatment of logic, from their emergence in his early 1847 work on through to his immediate successors, has been considerably enlarged. Chapter 2 includes additional discussion of the ``uninterpretable'' notion, both semantically and syntactically. Chapter 3 now includes a revival of Boole's abandoned propositional logic and, also, a discussion of his hitherto unnoticed brush with ancient formal logic. Chapter 5 has an improved explanation of why Boole's probability method works. Chapter 6, Applications and Probability Logic, is a new addition. Changes from the first edition have brought about a three-fold increase in the bibliography |
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| Item Description: | Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002 |
| Physical Description: | xii, 428 pages |
| ISBN: | 0444879528 9780444879523 9781435686984 1435686985 9780080880051 |