George Spencer-Brown’s “Laws of Form” in Greek (παλιά ανέκδοτη δακτυλογραφημένη μετάφραση)
Image via WikipediaA long time ago (in the eighties) after reading George Spencer-Brown‘s famous book “Laws of Form“, trying to create mathematical extensions of it (the final one being “Multiple Form Logic“) I used a type-writer (!) to write this book’s first complete Greek translation.
George Spencer-Brown‘s “Laws of Form” is a very inspired, ground-breaking work, about Logic and Philosophy. The author’s goal was to re-write modern Logic, reformulating its foundations. It’s good that Bertrand Russell himself approved of GSB’s efforts (he also wrote reference letters and an introduction to the book itself). However, the book has remained more-or-less controversial, ever since.
George Spencer-Brown’s “Laws of Form” is a revolutionary book about Logic, which influenced many researchers and artists in the world, for about three decades. First published in 1969, “Laws of Form” expounded a new philosophical approach to the theory of Logic, deeply challenging for the foundations of modern Formal Logic. There are many sites in the Net about “Laws of Form“, despite the fact that George Spencer Brown does not have a site (or much sympathy for what he thinks as unnecessary publicity about him). Many excellent studies, essays and formal extensions of Brown’s Logic have been published ever since, in print as well as on line, by Richard Shoup, Dave Keenan, Tom McFarlane, Eddie Oshins, William Bricken, Lou Kauffmann, Jeff James, Francisco Varela, and others.
