Lukasiewicz

1910 · 1130 — Kraków: Akademia UmiejÄ™tnoÅ›ci 1910. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. Wrappers tanned due to aging somewhat chipped. Inside firm and clean. Overall in very good condition. First edition. In publisher’s printed wrappers. 4 1–210 2 p. <p><br /> One of the earliest works of Jan Lukasiewicz 1878–1956 the Polish logician and philosopher who introduced mathematical logic into Poland and who was a founding member of the Lwów–Warsaw school of logic which was later made internationally famous by Alfred Tarski and one of the principal architects and teachers of that school.<br /> <p><p><br /> Lukasiewicz is known to give the first rigorous formulation of many-valued logic and for introducing various improvements in propositional logic and for becoming the first historian of logic to treat the subject’s history from the standpoint of modern formal logic.<br /> <p><p><br /> In this early work which marks a crucial turning point in the development of the Lwów-Warsaw school Lukasiewicz questions the assumptions of traditional Aristotelian logic. He described later the treatise as an unsuccessful attempt to devise a “non-Aristotelian logic†however the monograph clearly anticipates his later concerns and the 1951 book “Aristotle's Syllogistic from the Standpoint of Modern Formal Logicâ€.<br /> Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy<br /> <p>. Akademia Umiejętności unknown