Principia mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead ... and Bertrand Russell.

CONTENTS OF VOLUME I PAGE PREFACE............. v INTRODUCTION........... 1 CHAPTER I. PRELIMINARY EXPLANATIONS OF IDEAS AND NOTATIONS.. 4 CHAPTER II. THE THEORY OF LOGICAL TYPES...... 39 CHAPTER III. INCOMPLETE SYMBOLS........ 69 PART I. MATHEMATICAL LOGIC. Summary of Part I.......... 91 SECTION A. THE THEORY OF DEDUCTION...... 94 *1. Primitive Ideas and Propositions...... 95 *2. Immediate Consequences of the Primitive Propositions.. 102 *3. The Logical Product of two Propositions..... 114 *4. Equivalence and Formal Rules....... 120 *5. Miscellaneous Propositions........ 128 SECTION B. THEORY OF APPARENT VARIABLES...... 132 *9. Extension of the Theory of Deduction from Lower to Higher Types of Propositions......... 132 *10. Theory of Propositions containing one Apparent Variable.. 143 *11. Theory of two Apparent Variables....... 157 *12. The Hierarchy of Types and the Axiom of Reducibility.. 168 *13. Identity............ 176 *14. Descriptions......... 181 SECTION C. CLASSES AND RELATIONS........ 196 *20. General Theory of Classes........ 196 *21. General Theory of Relations........ 211 *22. Calculus of Classes.......... 217 *23. Calculus of Relations......... 226 *24. The Universal Class, the Null-Class, and the Existence of Classes. 229 *25. The Universal Relation, the Null Relation, and the Existence of Relations........... 241

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Principia mathematica, by Alfred North Whitehead ... and Bertrand Russell.
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Whitehead, Alfred North, 1861-1947.
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