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Dawson’s stated intention is to provide a background for four seminal papers that influenced Gödel’s work. These papers in turn provide a backdrop for a discussion of Gödel’s main results.
It may be illuminating to add that Ludwig Wittgenstein independently developed a truth-table method in his 1921Tractatus Logico Philosophicas.
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Bach, C.N. Logical dilemmas: The life and work of kurt gödel. The Mathematical Intelligencer 20, 61–64 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03025230
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