Foundations of Logic and Mathematics.
CARNAP Rudolf (1939.)
£150.00 [First Edition]
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ON THE APPLICATION OF LOGIC IN EMPIRICAL SCIENCE.
First edition. 8vo (240 x 170mm). viii, 71, [1] pp. Original blue printed wrappers (small spilt to head of front joint, crease to lower corner of front wrapper, otherwise a very good, notably bright copy). Chicago, The University of Chicago Press.
"Foundations of Logic and Mathematics (1939), appearing in English in the first volume of the International Encyclopedia of Unified Science (the official monograph series of the Vienna Circle in exile). Here Carnap presents an especially clear and detailed account of the application of logic and mathematics in empirical science and, in particular, the central importance of the analytic/synthetic distinction therein" (Friedman, Cambridge Companion to Carnap, p. 12).
Stock Code: 231926
