Boole's Logic and Probability
A Critical Exposition from the Standpoint of Contemporary Algebra, Logic and Probability Theory
- 2nd Edition, Volume 85 - October 1, 1986
- Imprint: North Holland
- Author: T. Hailperin
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 4 - 5 5 8 2 1 - 3
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 0 8 - 0 8 8 0 0 5 - 1
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… Read more
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Request a sales quoteSince 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.
0. Requisites from Algebra, Logic and Probability. Part I: Logic. 1. Boole's Logic of Class Terms. 2. Formalization of Boole's Logic. 3. Boole's Propositional Logic. Part II: Probability. 4. Probability from Boole's Viewpoint. 5. Boole's Probability Made Rigorous. 6. Applications. Probability Logic. Bibliography. Index.
- Edition: 2
- Volume: 85
- Published: October 1, 1986
- Imprint: North Holland
- No. of pages: 427
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780444558213
- eBook ISBN: 9780080880051
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