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This book, written by one of the most distinguished of contemporary philosophers of mathematics, is a fully rewritten and updated successor to the author's earlier The Unprovability of Consistency (1979). Its subject is the relation between provability and modal logic, a branch of logic invented by Aristotle but much disparaged by philosophers and virtually ignored by mathematicians.George S. Boolos is the author of 'The Logic of Provability', published 1994 under ISBN 9780521433426 and ISBN 0521433428.
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