Essays in Analysis

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Russell Bertrand. Essays in Analysis. Edited by Douglas Lackey. First Edition. New York George Braziller 1973. 20.8cm x 15cm. 345 (5) pages. Original Hardcover with original dustjacket in protective Mylar. Excellent condition with only minor signs of external wear. Rare in this condition. Includes for Russells Critique of Meinong/ Meinongs Theory of Complexes and Assumptions (1904)/ Review A. Meinong Untersuchungen zur Gengenstandstheorie und Psychologie (1905)/ Review A. Meinong Uber die Stellung der Gegenstandstherie im System der Wissenschaften (1907)/ The Existential Import of Propositions (1905)/ On Denoting/ Mr. Strawson on Referring/ On Some Difficulties in the Theory of Transfinite Numbers and Order Types/ On the Substitutional Theory of Classes and Relations/ On Insolubilia and their Solution by Symbolic Logic/ The Theory of Logical Types/ Philosophy of Logic and Mathematics/ The Axiom of Infinity/ On the Relation of Mathematics to Logic/ The Regressive Method of Discovering the Premises of Mathematics/ The Philosophical Implications of Mathematical Logic/ Is Mathematics Purely Linguistic?/ Four Papers by Hugh McColl etc. A new collection of fifteen philosophical essays by Bertrand Russell which concentrates on stil-living questions in logic and ontology with most of the material drawn from between 1904 and 1914 when Russell and Alfred North Whitehead were at work on their monumental treatise Principia Mathematica. This book contains three previously unpublished papers of Russells three essays which have appeared only in French before and other rare material.