Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory

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Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory Gregory Landini
Type:	eBook
Released:	1998
Publisher:	Oxford University Press, USA
Page Count:	350
Format:	pdf
Language:	English
ISBN-10:	0195116836
ISBN-13:	9780195116830

This book explores an important central thread that unifies Russell's thoughts on logic in two works previously considered at odds with each other, the Principles of Mathematics and the later Principia Mathematica.Russell's Hidden Substitutional Theory Textbook This thread is Russell's doctrine that logic is an absolutely general science and that any calculus for it must embrace wholly unrestricted variables. The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory. On Landini's showing, the substitutional theory reveals the unity of Russell's philosophy of logic and offers new avenues for a genuine solution of the paradoxes plaguing Logicism.