About this title: This book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ignored by mathematicians. Here it receives its first scientific application since its invention. Modal logic is concerned with the notions of necessity and possibility. What George Boolos does is to show how the concepts, techniques, and ...
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Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521483254ISBN:0521483255
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521433426ISBN:0521433428
Description: Octavo, 273pp. First edition. Near fine copy in publisher's cloth covered boards in like dust jacket. Inscribed by Boolos on the front paste down: "for Van, George. " read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Date Published: 1995
ISBN-13:9780521483254ISBN:0521483255
Description: New. This book written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provabilit... read more
Description: New. This book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author'Äôs earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ignored by mathematicians. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521483254ISBN:0521483255
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521483254ISBN:0521483255
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Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13:9780521483254ISBN:0521483255
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Edition: NEW ED
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, UK
ISBN-13:9780521483254ISBN:0521483255
Description: New. PLEASE NOTE that we do not offer expedited shipping. Orders placed with the priority shipping option will automatically be canceled. This book written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ... read more
Binding: HB
Publisher: Cambridge Univ. Press
Date Published: 1993
ISBN-13:9780521433426ISBN:0521433428
Description: NEAR FINE. Cloth in dust-jacket, xxxvi+275pp., [2nd, rewritten, augmented ed. of 'The Unprovaability of Consistency (1979)], very good copy. read more
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