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Towards a Re-Evaluation of Julius König's Contribution to Logic

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 January 2014

Miriam Franchella
Miriam Franchella*
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Dipartimento Di Filosofia, Universitá Degli Studi, V. Festa Del Perdono 7, 20122 Milano, Italy E-mail: Miriam.Franchella@unimi.it
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Abstract

Julius König is famous for his mistaken attempt to demonstrate that the continuum hypothesis was false. It is also known that the only positive result that could have survived from his proof is the paradox which bears his name. Less famous is his 1914 book Neue Grundlagen der Logik, Arithmetik und Mengenlehre. Still, it contains original contributions to logic, like the concept of metatheory and the solution of paradoxes based on the refusal of the law of bivalence. We are going to discover them by analysing the content of the book.

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Bulletin of Symbolic Logic , Volume 6 , Issue 1 , March 2000 , pp. 45 - 66
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 2000

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