La logique de Leibniz d'après des documents inédits.

[LEIBNIZ] COUTURAT, Louis (1868-1914):

Verlag: Paris: F. Alcan, 1901., 1901

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xiv, 608 pp. 20th-century cloth. Very Good. 'While in Hannover in 1900-1901 Couturat had access to the unpublished works of Leibniz in the Royal Library. His researches resulted in the publication of La logique de Leibniz. The Leibniz studies brought Couturat into contact with Bertrand Russell and led to his influential edition of Russell's Principia mathematica, with analytical commentary on contemporary works on the subject. Bergson then chose Couturat as his assistant to the history of logic at the College de France' (D.S.B. III: 455-6). 'According to Russell, although his own work had relied 'almost exclusively' on the Discourse on metaphysics and the letters to Arnauld, Couturat drew on 'innumerable writings expressing the same point of view, which had remained buried among the mass of documents at [the archives in] Hanover for over two centuries.' Among the writings discovered by Couturat, the most important, according to Russell, was the First truths to which Couturat had given the date of 1686 and in which: all the main doctrines of the 'Monadology' are deduced, with terse logical rigour from the premiss: 'Always therefore the predicate or consequent is in the subject or antecedent, and the nature of truth in general or the connection between the terms of a statement, consists in this very thing. . . . Moreover this is true for every affirmative truth, universal or particular, necessary or contingent.' Russell claims that on the basis of such texts, '[n]o candid reader . . . can doubt that Leibniz's metaphysics was derived by him from the subject-predicate logic. For Russell, 'Couturat's work afforded conclusive confirmation' of his own interpretation, and went beyond his account to prove, for example, that the identity of indiscernibles is 'expressly deduced by Leibniz from the analytic character of all true propositions.' . . . Couturat originally published First truths and his interpretation of Leibniz's thought in La logique de Leibniz d'après des documents inédits of 1901' (Christia Mercer, Leibniz's Metaphysics: Its Origins and Development, Cambridge University Press, 2001, p. 4). Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 24362

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Titel: La logique de Leibniz d'après des documents ...

Verlag: Paris: F. Alcan, 1901.

Erscheinungsdatum: 1901

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: Very Good

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