The Unprovability of Consistency: An Essay in Modal Logic |  | Author: George Boolos
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 2257929
Media: Hardcover
Pages: 208
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Dimensions (in): 8.3 x 5.4 x 0.8
ISBN: 0521218799
Dewey Decimal Number: 160
EAN: 9780521218795
Publication Date: April 30, 1979
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Condition: Very good in very good dust jacket. Signed by previous owner. NO MARKS in text Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 208 p. Audience: General/trade.
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Product Description
The Unprovability of Consistency is concerned with connections between two branches of logic: proof theory and modal logic. Modal logic is the study of the principles that govern the concepts of necessity and possibility; proof theory is, in part, the study of those that govern provability and consistency. In this book, George Boolos looks at the principles of provability from the standpoint of modal logic. In doing so, he provides two perspectives on a debate in modal logic that has persisted for at least thirty years between the followers of C. I. Lewis and W. V. O. Quine. The author employs semantic methods developed by Saul Kripke in his analysis of modal logical systems. The book will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in logic, mathematics and philosophy, as well as to specialists in those fields.
Book Description
The Unprovability of Consistency is concerned with connections between two branches of logic: proof theory and modal logic. Modal logic is the study of the principles that govern the concepts of necessity and possibility; proof theory is, in part, the study of those that govern provability and consistency.
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