ABSTRACT

Originally published in 1941. Professor Ushenko treats of current problems in technical Logic, involving Symbolic Logic to a marked extent. He deprecates the tendency, in influential quarters, to regard Logic as a branch of Mathematics and advances the intuitionalist theory of Logic. This involves criticism of Carnap, Russell,Wittgenstein, Broad and Whitehead, with additional discussions on Kant and Hegel. The author believes that the union of Philosophy and Logic is a natural one, and that an exclusively mathematical treatment cannot give an adequate account of Logic. A fundamental characteristic of Logic is comprehensiveness, which brings out the affinity between logic and philosophy, for to be comprehensive is the aim of philosophical ambition.

chapter I|38 pages

The Nature of Logic

chapter II|40 pages

The Paradoxes of Logic

chapter III|30 pages

Consistency and the Decision-Problem

chapter IV|35 pages

Conceptual Reference

chapter V|46 pages

Logic and Reality

chapter VI|25 pages

The Existence of Propositions