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Lesniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
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Lesniewski's Systems of Logic and Foundations of Mathematics (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2014)
Series: Trends in Logic, 37
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This meticulous critical assessment of the ground-breaking work of
philosopher Stanislaw Lesniewski 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 Lesniewski'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, Lesniewski was a guide and mentor to a generation of
celebrated analytical philosophers (Alfred Tarski was his PhD
student). His primary achievement was a system of foundational
mathematical logic intended as an alternative to the Principia
Mathematica of Alfred North Whitehead and Bertrand Russell. Its
three strands-'protothetic', 'ontology', and 'mereology', are
detailed in discrete sections of this volume, alongside a wealth
other chapters grouped to provide the fullest possible coverage of
Lesniewski's academic output. 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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