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Philosophia Mathematica 2005 13(2):231-232; doi:10.1093/philmat/nki020
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Philosophia Mathematica (III), Vol. 13 No. 2 © Oxford University Press, 2005, all rights reserved

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ANITA BURDMAN FEFERMAN and SOLOMON FEFERMAN. Alfred Tarski: Life and Logic. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2004. Pp. vi + 435. ISBN 0-521-80240-7.

Elliott Mendelson*

*Queens College (CUNY) Flushing, N. Y. 11367, U. S. A., and CUNY Graduate Center, New York, N. Y. 10016, U. S. A emenqc@msn.com

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Alfred Tarski (1901–1983) was considered by many to be one of the top two logicians of the twentieth century. It was reported to the authors by the logician John Corcoran that Tarski once referred to himself as ‘the greatest living sane logician’, presumably so as to eliminate from contention his chief rival, Kurt Gödel. This quotation is typical of the items . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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