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He specializes in the history of analytic philosophy and in logic, most notably the classical decision problem. The text for the course is fundamentals of mathematical logic, by peter. A harvard graduate who taught at his alma mater for most of his career where. The principles of deductive logic presents symbolic logic in a fuller and more leisurely fashion than other introductory textbooks.
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