PUTNAM, HILARY.

Decidability and Essential Undecidability.

[No place], The Journal of Symbolic Logic, 1957. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "Journal of Symbolic Logic", Vol. 22, Number 1. March, 1957. A very fine and clean copy. Pp. 39-54 [Entire issue: 112 pp.].

First printing of Putnam's important paper in which he analyses whether a decidable theory has an essentially undecidable, axiomatizable extension (with the same constants).

Hilary Whitehall Putnam (1926 - ) is an American philosopher who has been a central figure in analytic philosophy since the 1960s. Putnam approached others as well as his own philosophical positions with scrutiny which made him acquire a reputation for frequently changing his own position. The present article therefore becomes a logical description of his own approach to philosophical problems.

Journal of Symbolic Logic, together with Bulletin of Symbolic Logic and Review of Symbolic Logic, is the official journal of the Association for Symbolic Logic. The Journal of Symbolic Logic was founded in 1936 and it has become the leading research journal in the field. It is issued quarterly.

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