Catalog description: Introduction to deductive logic. Topics include: basic concepts of deductive logic; techniques of formal proof in propositional and predicate logic. 3 units. Prerequisites: No ...

SUMMARY: At the beginning of the 20th century, philosophical thought was transformed by the discovery of the "new logic", i.e. mathematical or symbolic logic. With this novum organum, philosophers ...

We first extend Quine's method of eliminating the bound variables to first-order predicate logic with operation symbols ; then we give a device for eliminating also the free variables ; and finally we ...