RUSSELL'S HIDDEN SUBSTITUTIONAL THEORY by Gregory Landini ( 9780195116830 )

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RUSSELL'S HIDDEN SUBSTITUTIONAL THEORY

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0195116836

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9780195116830

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OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS INC

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1 June, 1998

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350

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Gregory Landini presents and explores Bertrand Russell's substitutional theory of classes - a theory largely elaborated in unpublished manuscripts from the period before Principia Mathematica. He shows how paradoxes about propositions gradually undermined this theory and forced Russell to recast his ideas. Landini argues, however, that even in the Principia Russell is still attempting to salvage the guiding idea of the theory, showing that Russell'swork exhibits far more consistency than previously thought.

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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. 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 The heart of Landini's book is a careful analysis of Russell's largely unpublished "substitutional" theory.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.

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