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In The Logic of Number, Neil Tennant defines and develops his Natural Logicist account of the foundations of the natural, rational, and real numbers. Based on the logical system free Core Logic, the central method is to formulate rules of natural deduction governing variable-binding number abstraction operators and other logico mathematical expressions such as zero and successor. * MathSciNet *

In The Logic of Number, Neil Tennant defines and develops his Natural Logicist account of the foundations of the natural, rational, and real numbers. Based on the logical system free Core Logic, the central method is to formulate rules of natural deduction governing variable-binding number abstraction operators and other logico mathematical expressions such as zero and successor. * MathSciNet * This quite learned book does collate a great deal of interesting historical and philosophical material and relevant results from modern logic. * Choice *

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Neil Tennant is Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in Philosophy at The Ohio State University. He has previously held positions at the University of Edinburgh, the University of Stirling, and the Australian National University. He is the author of Anti-Realism and Logic: Truth as Eternal (1987), The Taming of The True (1997), Changes of Mind: An Essay on Rational Belief Revision (2012), and Core Logic (2017), all published by OUP.

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