Topic: GENERAL LOGIC
Tarski's Conception of Logic
By Solomon Feferman
In its widest scope, Tarski thought the aims of logic should be the creation of a unified conceptual apparatus which would supply a common basis for the whole of human knowledge. Those were his very words in the Preface to the first English edition of the Introduction to Logic (1940). Toward that grand end, in the post-war years when the institutional and financial resources became available, with extraordinary persistence and determination Tarski campaigned vigorously on behalf of logic on several fronts from his increasingly powerful base at the University of California in Berkeley.(...)
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Posted by Tony Marmo
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Updated: Thursday, 28 October 2004 18:52 BST
