by Willard Van Orman Quine
Harvard University Press, 1980
eISBN: 978-0-674-04249-0 | Paper: 978-0-674-24451-1
Library of Congress Classification BC135.Q46 2001
Dewey Decimal Classification 160

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ABOUT THIS BOOK

Much revised since its first appearance in 1941, Willard Van Orman Quine’s Elementary Logic, 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.