Well it was not exactly a dissertation in logic, at least not the kind of logic you would find in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica for instance. It looked more like mathematics; no formalized language was used.
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Here at Wisconsin we didn't get an undergraduate course in mathematical logic until the '60s.
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.
Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Even as I pursued a doctorate in the history of ideas in my native Denmark, I realized I had neither the encyclopedic training nor the passion for cool logic - not to mention the nerve - to follow in the footsteps of classical liberal philosophers and economists such as Robert Nozick, Friedrich Hayek, and Milton Friedman.
Much of what I make is geometric, and has a kind of almost mathematical logic to the form.
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.