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Contents of Volume I
Page
Preface v
Introduction 1
Chapter I. Preliminary Explanations of Ideas and Notations 4
Chapter II. The Theory of Logical Types 39
Chapter III. Incomplete Symbols 69
Part I. Mathematical Logic.
Summary of Part I 91
Section A. The Theory of Deduction 94
✱1. Primitive Ideas and Propositions 95
✱2. Immediate Consequences of the Primitive Propositions 102
✱3. The Logical Product of two Propositions 114
✱4. Equivalence and Formal Rules 120
✱5. Miscellaneous Propositions 128
Section B. Theory of Apparent Variables 132
✱9. Extension of the Theory of Deduction from Lower to Higher Types of Propositions 132
✱10. Theory of Propositions containing one Apparent Variable 143
✱11. Theory of two Apparent Variables 157
✱12. The Hierarchy of Types and the Axiom of Reducibility 168
✱13. Identity 176
✱14. Descriptions 181
Section C. Classes and Relations 196
✱20. General Theory of Classes 196
✱21. General Theory of Relations 211
✱22. Calculus of Classes 217
✱23. Calculus of Relations 226
✱24. The Universal Class, the Null-Class, and the Existence of Classes 229
✱25. The Universal Relation, the Null Relation, and the Existence of Relations 241