Elementary Logic

by Willard Van Orman Quine

Now much revised since its first appearance in 1941, this book, despite its brevity, is notable for its scope and rigor. It provides a single strand of simple techniques for the central business of modern logic. Basic formal concepts are explained, the paraphrasing of words into symbols is treated at some length, and a testing procedure is given for truth-function logic along with a complete proof procedure for the logic of quantifiers. Fully one third of this revised edition is new, and presents a nearly complete turnover in crucial techniques of testing and proving, some change of notation, and some updating of terminology. The study is intended primarily as a convenient encapsulation of minimum essentials, but concludes by giving brief glimpses of further matters.

Genres: Philosophy, Logic, Nonfiction, Mathematics, Science

143 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1941

About the author

"Willard Van Orman Quine (June 25, 1908 Akron, Ohio – December 25, 2000) (known to intimates as "Van"), was an American analytic philosopher and logician. From 1930 until his death 70 years later, Quine was affiliated in some way with Harvard University, first as a student, then as a professor of philosophy and a teacher of mathematics, and finally as an emeritus elder statesman who published or revised seven books in retirement. He filled the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard, 1956-78. Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is not conceptual analysis. His major writings include "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", which attacked the distinction between analytic and synthetic propositions and advocated a form of semantic holism, and Word and Object which further developed these positions and introduced the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis." - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willard_...

Reviews

[Mohammed · Rating 3 out of 5]

الكاتب يقصد بـ"بسيط" إنه عرض ملخص لأهم ما يجب معرفته في المنطق الحديث، ولا يعني انه موجه لشخص أول مرة يبدأ في المنطق لأنه محتاج معرفة مسبقة عن بعض المواضيع المنطقية والرياضية قبل البدء به.
كتاب ممتع جدا ومفيد.

[. .. · Rating 5 out of 5]

4 للكتاب
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[Jesus · Rating 5 out of 5]

This book shows you the cliff notes about what Elementary logic is all about. A must have if you are learning about logic in general. A great piece of art. Dr. Quine you done it again.

[Canavan · Rating 4 out of 5]

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[Gary Fields · Rating 3 out of 5]

I actually didn't finish this book. But as a layperson studying on my own I wish I could. It seems as though it is an extremely bare bones set of notes for a classroom setting. There is no real elaboration or illustration of what is being taught. The author states the rules of whatever part of logic he's on at the moment, and then moves on.

I also feel as though a lot more could have been said as far as the logical notation given.

[Tango Wiley · Rating 2 out of 5]

If you had to learn logic from this book, I pity you. :/

[Shwan Yaman · Rating 5 out of 5]

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