This is an extensively revised edition of W. V. Quine's introduction to abstract set theory and to various axiomatic systematizations of the subject. The treatment of ordinal numbers has been strengthened and much simplified, especially in the theory of transfinite recursions, by adding an axiom and reworking the proofs. Infinite cardinals are treated anew in clearer and fuller terms than before.
Improvements have been made all through the book; in various instances a proof has been shortened, a theorem strengthened, a space-saving lemma inserted, an obscurity clarified, an error corrected, a historical omission supplied, or a new event noted.
- ISBN10 0674802063
- ISBN13 9780674802063
- Publish Date 1 July 1969 (first published 31 January 1969)
- Publish Status Unknown
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Edition 2nd Revised edition
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 380
- Language English