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‎La philosophie de la logique - Traduit de l'américain par Jean Largeault‎

‎Aubier - Editions Montaigne , Analyse et Raisons Malicorne sur Sarthe, 72, Pays de la Loire, France 1975 Book condition, Etat : Bon broché, sous couverture imprimée éditeur blanche et bleue grand In-8 1 vol. - 158 pages‎

‎ 1ere traduction en français "Contents, Chapitres : Préface- Signification et vérité - Grammaire - Vérité - Vérité logique - Etendue de la logique - Logiques déviationnistes - Sur quoi repose la vérité logique - Suggestions de lectures - Willard Van Orman Quine (25 juin 1908 à Akron, Ohio - 25 décembre 2000 à Boston, Massachusetts) est un philosophe et logicien américain, l'un des principaux représentants de la philosophie analytique. Il est notamment l'auteur de Les deux dogmes de l'empirisme, article célèbre de 1951 qui critique la distinction entre analytique et synthétique et de Le Mot et la Chose en 1960 où il propose sa thèse de l'indétermination de la traduction radicale et une critique du concept de « signification ». Comme l'écrit Diego Marconi, « la pensée de Quine a été un des facteurs qui ont déterminé lévolution du courant principal de la philosophie anglo-saxonne depuis le néo-positivisme jusquà lample et variée koiné, désignée sous le nom de ""philosophie analytique"" ». En logique mathématique il est principalement connu pour avoir produit une théorie des ensembles alternative appelée New Foundations." couverture à peine frottée et tres legerement jaunie, intérieur propre, papier à peine jauni, quelques rousseurs sur la dernière page (catalogue de la collection) - grand format de l'édition originale en français (1975)‎

‎Methods of Logic.‎

‎London, Routledge & Kegan Paul (1952). 8vo. Original full cloth. Minor wear to extremities, otherwise fine and clean copy.. XVII, (5), 264 pp.‎

‎The book which resulted from the advanced undergraduate course in logic that the important analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) taught from the end of World War II until his retirement in 1978 at Havard University. Technically rather dated, it still contains much philosophical and linguistic insight, being a prime example of Quine's lucid thought.‎

‎Set Theory and its Logic.‎

‎Cambridge, Harvard University Press, 1963. 8vo. In the original black cloth with the original dust jacket. Light wear to dust jacket and front hindge dettached, otherwise fine. 359 pp‎

‎Le mot et la chose‎

‎Ed. Flammarion, coll. Champs, Paris, 2001. 413 pages. Très bon état.‎

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‎WORD AND OBJECT‎

‎The MIT Press. 1975. In-8. Broché. Bon état, Couv. convenable, Dos plié, Intérieur frais. 294 pages. Tranche légèrement passée.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎MIT 4. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎LOGIQUE ELEMENTAIRE‎

‎Armand Colin. 1972. In-16. Broché. Etat d'usage, 1er plat abîmé, Dos satisfaisant, Déchirures. 224 pages. Petits manques sur les bords du 1er plat. Bords inférieurs des premiers feuillets abîmés et salis, sans altération de la lecture.. . . . Classification Dewey : 510-Mathématiques‎

‎Collection U2, n° 193. Trad. de Jean LARGEAULT et Bertrand SAINT-SERNIN. Classification Dewey : 510-Mathématiques‎

‎A System of Logistic. - [MAGNIFICENT PRESENTATION-COPY]‎

‎Cambridge, Massachusetts, Harvard University Press, 1934. Original full red cloth with gilt line-borders to boards, original dust-jacket, somewhat worn, with a red label over the price and chips and nicks to extremities. Minor loss to corners of dust-jacket, and a large loss of upper part of spine of dust-jacket (ca. 6 x 2 cm), thus lacking the title to spine of dust-jacket, and leaving the cloth of the same part of the spine sunned and the gilding of the title on spine almost faded off. Some soiling to dust-jacket. Internally nice and clean. X, (2), 204 pp.‎

‎An excellent presentation copy of this scarce first edition of the great logician's first book, which is the published version of his doctoral thesis, hailed by Whitehead as a landmark in the history of symbolic logic.Inscribed by Quine ""To F. Gomes Cassidy, historian of/ languages, from Van Quine, manu-/ facturer of one. Mathematical/ truth is linguistic convention,/ and logic is the [four Chinese characters]"".Frederic Gomez Cassidy (1907-2000) was a great capacity within wold language scholarship and a close friend of Quine, whom he had known since school and been to Oberlin College with. He was a talented linguist specialized in Early English, Creoles, Lexicography, and American language, who is now primarily famous for his lately begun monumental project, the ""Dictionary of American Regional English"" (known as DARE). Cassisy was born in Jamaica to a Canadian father and a Jamaican mother and grew up hearing their varieties of standard British English as well as the Cleole variety of the Black majority. When Cassidy was eleven years old, the whole family moved to Ohio. ""Here the young Jamaican was introduced to yet another variety of English and was dismayed to learn that it was he who sounded ""funny."" But that distinction was to have a significant benefit. It piqued the curiosity of a classmate who sought to know and befriend the boy who looked, acted, and sounded so different. That classmate was Willard Van Orman (""Van"") Quine, later to become one of America's most distinguished philosophers. The friendship he and Fred began as boys was to last their lifetimes, nourished by shared experiences at Oberlin College, regular correspondence through the decades, and frequent summer hiking trips."" (Memorial Resolution of the Faculty of the University of Wisconsin-Madison on the Death of Professor Emeritus Frederic Gomes Cassidy). The time at Oberlin College was of specific joy to him, and it was here he came to explore his interest in languages, philosophy, and science. He obtained his BA in 1930 and his MA, also at Oberlin, in 1932, and in 1938 he was given his PhD from the University of Michigan. Quine graduated from Oberlin College in 1930. He then won a scholarship to study for his doctorate at Harvard University, where he wrote the important thesis that was to constitute his first book. Quine's supervisor at Harvard was Alfred North Whitehead, who has also written the Foreword to his first book and who introduced him to Bertrand Russell, who visited Harvard during this time. From then on, Quine kept an ongoing correspondence with Russell. Quine finished his doctorate in two years and was awarded his Ph.D. in philosophy from Harvard in 1932. After that he received a travelling fellowship, which he used to travel to Vienna, where he got acquainted with the members of the Vienna Circle. During his travels he also met Gödel and Ayer. In Warsaw he spent six weeks with Tarski, and in Prague he studied under Carnap, who greatly inspired him. After his year of travelling, he returned to Harvard, where he published the present version of his doctoral dissertation, his first book.""In this book Dr. Quine has effected an extension of the scope of Symbolic Logic. The advance is more than an improvement in symbols. It extends to fundamental notions. He has introduced a generality adequate to the complexity of the subject matter"" and the symbolism embodies the generality of its meaning. I have no hesitation in stating by belief that Dr. Quine's book constitutes a landmark in the history of the subject."" So Whitehead writes in his Foreword (p. (IX) ). The logic that Quine takes into consideration is that of Russel and Whitehead's ""Principia Mathematica"", and when Whitehead towards the end of the Foreword states that ""Dr. Quine does not touch upon the relationship of Logic to Metahysics. He keeps strictly within the boundaries of his subject. But - if in conclusion I may venture beyond these limits - the reformation of Logic has an essential reference to Metaphysics. For Logic prescribes the shapes of metaphysical thought"" (p. X), the metaphysics he is talking about is nominalism. For Russell and Whitehead, Quine's work represented an unusual illustration of their own logic.The work was also under much influence of the Polish logicians, and as Whitehead concludes in his Foreword, ""it is interesting to note the influence of of the work of Professor H. M. Scheffer, and of the great school of Polish mathematicians. There is continuity in the progress of ordered knowledge."" (P. X).‎

‎Word and Object. - [THE INDETERMINACY OF TRANSLATION - PRESENTATION-COPY OF QUINE'S MAIN WORK]‎

‎(N.Y., Wiley & Sons), 1960). 8vo. Orig. olive green full cloth w. gilt and black lettering and blindstamped seal to front board, and in orig. d.-j. Binding w. a bit of sunning and soiling to spine, and minor bumping to capitals and corners, otherwise nice and clean. With the rare original dust-jacket, in excellent condition, w. a tear to upper front hinge, no loss, and a few other small nicks and tears w. almost no loss. Some underlinings and marginalia in pencil. XV, (1), 294 pp.‎

‎First edition, presentation-copy, of Quine's main work, in which he introduces the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis. This is the most philosophical of all of Quine's works, and it has greatly affected the development of logic, philosophy of language and mathematics, and analytic philosophy in general.The presentation-inscription to front free end-paper reads as thus: ""To Rod Firth/ with best regards./ Van"". Roderick Firth was Quine's colleague as professor of philosophy at Harvard. He was chairman of the philosophy department at Harvard from 1957 until 1963. He earned a doctorate at Harvard in 1943, joined the faculty in 1953 and became Alford Professor of Natural Religion, Moral Philosophy and Civil Polity in 1962.It is in his ""Word and Object"" that Quine propounds his ""indeterminacy of translation""-thesis, which became central in the development of philosophy of language. ""Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend on intersubjectively available cues such as to what to say and when. Hence there is no justification for collating linguistic meanings, unless in terms of men's dispositions to respond overtly to socially observable stimulations."" (Preface p. IX).Quine bases his main thesis on his consideration of the linguist, who attempts to translate a hitherto unknown language. There are different methods that the linguist could apply as to the breaking down of sentences and distribution of function among the words. Quine reaches the conclusion that if any hypothesis of translation needs to be defended, this can only be by appeal to context, by determining what other sentences the language user would utter in the language that is unknown to the linguist. But even here the indeterminacy of translation sets in, because, according to Quine, any hypothesis can be defended, if only enough other hypotheses of other parts of the language are adopted. This indeterminacy of language also applies to the known languages, and even one's own, and thus Quine implies that there are no such entities as ""meanings"" of right and wrong. Quine thus denies any absolute standards in translating one language into another, but he admits that there are good and bad translation, -this is just not philosophically or logically relevant. Translation can be inconsistent with behavioral evidence, however and thus Quine propounds his pragmatic view of translation. ""Neurath has likened science to a boat, which, if we are to rebuild it, we must rebuild plank by plank while staying afloat in it. The philosopher and the scientist are in the same boat. If we improve our understanding of ordinary talk of physical things, it will not be by reducing that talk to a more familiar idiom"" there is none. It will be by clarifying the connections, causal or otherwise, between ordinary talk of physical things and various further matters which in turn we grasp with the help of ordinary talk of physical things."" (P. 3 - 9).‎

‎Word and Object. - [THE INDETERMINACY OF TRANSLATION]‎

‎(N.Y., Wiley & Sons, 1960). 8vo. Orig. olive green full cloth w. gilt and black lettering and blindstamped seal to front board. A bit of soiling to spine and minor soiling to boards, and minor bumping to capitals and corners. Some underlinings and marginal notes, all in pencil. Cont owner's inscription to front free endpaper: ""Eivind Storheim,/ Cambridge 25/9 1962."" XV, (1), 294 pp.‎

‎First edition of Quine's main work, in which he introduces the notorious indeterminacy of translation thesis. This is the most philosophical of all of Quine's works, and it has greatly affected the development of logic, philosophy of language and mathematics and analytic philosophy in general.It is in this work that Quine propounds his ""indeterminacy of translation""-thesis, which became central in the development of philosophy of language. ""Language is a social art. In acquiring it we have to depend on intersubjectively available cues such as to what to say and when. Hence there is no justification for collating linguistic meanings, unless in terms of men's dispositions to respond overtly to socially observable stimulations."" (Preface p. IX).By considering the linguist, who attempts to translate a hitherto unknown language. There are different methods that the linguist could apply as to the breaking down of sentences and distribution of function among the words. Quine reaches the conclusion that if any hypothesis of translation needs to be defended, this can only be by appeal to context, by determining what other sentences the language user would utter in the language that is unknown to the linguist. But even here the indeterminacy of translation sets in, because, according to Quine, any hypothesis can be defended, if only enough other hypotheses of other parts of the language are adopted. This indeterminacy of language also applies to the known languages, and even one's own, and thus Quine implies that there are no such entities as ""meanings"" of right and wrong. Quine thus denies any absolute standards in translating one language into another, but he admits that there are good and bad translation, -this is just not philosophically or logically relevant. Translation can be inconsistent with behavioral evidence, however and thus Quine propounds his pragmatic view of translation. ""Neurath has likened science to a boat, which, if we are to rebuild it, we must rebuild plank by plank while staying afloat in it. The philosopher and the scientist are in the same boat. If we improve our understanding of ordinary talk of physical things, it will not be by reducing that talk to a more familiar idiom"" there is none. It will be by clarifying the connections, causal or otherwise, between ordinary talk of physical things and various further matters which in turn we grasp with the help of ordinary talk of physical things."" (P. 3 - 9).‎

‎[QUINE:] Completeness of the Propositional Calculus (+) On the Theory of Types (+) [KLEENE:] On Notation for Ordinal Numbers.‎

‎(Wisconsin), The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1937. Lex8vo. Original printed wrappers, no backstrip. In ""The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 3, 1938."" Entire issue offered. Internally very fine and clean. [Quine:] Pp. 37-40"" Pp. 125-39. [Entire issue: IV, 212 pp.].‎

‎First printing of these papers which include Kleene's milestone paper in which Kleene's O (Ordial numbers), a recursive function, is introduced. In set theory and computability theory, Kleene's is a canonical subset of the natural numbers when regarded as ordinal notations.""In the seventeenth century, Leibniz envisaged a universal language that would allow one to reduce mathematical proofs to simple computations. Then, during the nineteenth century, llgicians such as Charles Babbage, Boole, Frege and Peano tried to formalize mathematical reasoning by an ""algebraization"" of logic. Finally, [...] Gödel, Church and Stephen Kleene introduced the notion of recursive functions. (The Princeston Companion to Mathematics. P. 111).‎

‎ELEMENTARY LOGIC‎

‎Harper Torchbooks. 1965. In-8. Broché. Etat d'usage, Couv. légèrement passée, Dos frotté, Papier jauni. 129 pages.. . . . Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎

‎Revised Edition. Classification Dewey : 420-Langue anglaise. Anglo-saxon‎