## Notre Dame Journal of Formal Logic

### Logic in Russell's Principles of Mathematics

Gregory Landini

#### Abstract

Unaware of Frege's 1879 Begriffsschrift, Russell's 1903 The Principles of Mathematics set out a calculus for logic whose foundation was the doctrine that any such calculus must adopt only one style of variables–entity (individual) variables. The idea was that logic is a universal and all-encompassing science, applying alike to whatever there is–propositions, universals, classes, concrete particulars. Unfortunately, Russell's early calculus has appeared archaic if not completely obscure. This paper is an attempt to recover the formal system, showing its philosophical background and its semantic completeness with respect to the tautologies of a modern sentential calculus.

#### Article information

Source
Notre Dame J. Formal Logic Volume 37, Number 4 (1996), 554-584.

Dates
First available in Project Euclid: 16 December 2002

http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1040046142

Digital Object Identifier
doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1040046142

Mathematical Reviews number (MathSciNet)
MR1446229

Zentralblatt MATH identifier
0883.03001

#### Citation

Landini, Gregory. Logic in Russell's Principles of Mathematics . Notre Dame J. Formal Logic 37 (1996), no. 4, 554--584. doi:10.1305/ndjfl/1040046142. http://projecteuclid.org/euclid.ndjfl/1040046142.

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