Boole's Logic and Probability

Boole's Logic and Probability A Critical Exposition from the Standpoint of Contemporary Algebra, Logic and Probability Theory - Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics

2nd Edition, Revised and enl

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Publisher's Synopsis

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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780444879523
Publisher: Elsevier Science
Imprint: North Holland
Pub date:
Edition: 2nd Edition, Revised and enl
DEWEY: 519.20924
DEWEY edition: 18
Language: English
Number of pages: 428
Weight: -1g
Height: 230mm
Width: 150mm