A study in the philosophy of science /

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Authors: Elsevier Science & Technology.
Group Author: Beth, Evert Willem. (Editor)
Published: Elsevier Science,
Publisher Address: Dodrecht :
Publication Dates: 1959.
Literature type: eBook
Language: English
Series: Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics ; v. 25
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Online Access: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/bookseries/0049237X/25
Carrier Form: 1 online resource (xxviii, 731 pages).
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
ISBN: 9780444533906
0444533907
Index Number: Q175
CLC: N02
Contents: Prehistory of research into foundations -- Aristotle's theory of science -- Historical development of symbolic logic and formalised axiomatics -- Introduction -- Extension of the system of natural numbers -- Theory of natural numbers -- Axiomatics of fundamental theories of modern mathematics -- Introduction -- Survey of symbolic logic -- Finitary theory of proof -- Syntax -- Semantics -- Logicism -- Cantorism -- Intuitionism -- Nominalism -- Paradoxes of logic and set theory and their solution -- Completeness theorems for logical systems -- Calculus of systems and models -- Further applications of topological methods -- Theory of recursive functions and the negative results concerning the decision problem -- Metamathematics, philosophy of mathematics and general philosophy.