Elementary Logic.: Revised edition.
by QUINE, Willard Van Orman
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About This Item
New York: Harper Torchbooks,, 1965. First revised edition, presentation copy from the author to his elder brother Robert Cloyd Quine and his wife Rosalie, inscribed on the front free endpaper "a little logic for Rosalie & Bob with love from Van". Quine wrote Elementary Logic while teaching an introductory course in the subject in 1940, and discovering that current texts in the subject did not do justice to either quantification theory or first-order logic. First published in 1941, it was used as a standard textbook in the subject for many decades. "This edition, appearing after twenty-four years, is much revised. Fully a third is new. There is some change of notation, much updating of terminology, and a nearly complete turnover in crucial techniques of testing and proving" (author's preface to the revised edition). Octavo. Original wrappers. Very light shelfwear, still a near-fine copy.
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- Peter Harrington (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 150059
- Title
- Elementary Logic.
- Author
- QUINE, Willard Van Orman
- Book Condition
- Used
- Place of Publication
- New York: Harper Torchbooks,
- Date Published
- 1965
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