EARLY AND HIGHLY INFLUENTIAL TEXTBOOK IN MODERN LOGIC

CARNAP, RUDOLF.

Abriss der Logistik. Mit besonderer Berücksichtigung der Relationstheorie und ihrer Anwendungen.

Wien, Julius Springer, 1929. 8vo. Bound in a contemporary full cloth with red title label with gilt lettering to spine. Previous owner's name [Bent Schultzer, Danish professor in philosophy] to title page. A fine and clean copy. VI, 114 pp.

First edition of Carnap's Abriss der Logistik which constitutes one of very first textbooks in modern logic, the influence of which was immense. The basic purpose of Carnap's publication is to make the logical system, from Russell and Whitehead's seminal work within mathematical logic, Principia Mathematica, available to a broader audience.

"While published a year after Hilbert and Ackermann's more prominent Grundzüge der theoretischen Logik [1928], Carnap's Abriss - essentially finished in 1927, largely independant of Grundzüge, and circulated widely - also had significant influence, especially in Vienna, where Carnap taught at the time." (Creath, The Cambridge companion to Carnap. P. 181).
Carnap himself wrote about Abriss: "In 1924 I wrote the first version of the later book, Abriss der Logistik . It was based on Principia. Its main purpose was to give not only a system of symbolic logic, but also to show its application for the analysis of concepts and the construction of deductive systems".

Rudolf Carnap was an influential German philosopher who was active in Europe before 1935 and in the United States thereafter. He was a leading member of the Vienna Circle and a famous advocate of logical positivism.

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