QUINE, W. V.

On q-inconsistency and the So-Called Axiom of Infinity

(No place), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1953. Lev8vo. Bound in red half cloth with gilt lettering to spine. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Volume 18. Barcode label pasted on to back board. Small library stamp to lower part of 6 pages. A very fine copy. Pp. 119-124. [Entire volume: VI, 376 pp.).

First printing of Quine's reply to Rosser on the questions of the so-called axiom of infinity. Quine remarks that is it odd that that the axiom of ifinity has not yet been proven. He thought it intuitively clear that the axiom ought to hold, but proof was lacking.

Quine is one of the most important American and analytical philosophers of the 20th century. His contributions to analytic philosophy and philosophical logic have been immense.

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