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Philosophy of logic /

With his customary incisiveness, W. V. Quine presents logic as the product of two factors, truth and grammar--but argues against the doctrine that the logical truths are true because of grammar or language. Rather, in presenting a general theory of grammar and discussing the boundaries and possible...

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Main Author: Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1986.
Subjects:
Logic.
Philosophy.
Philosophy
Logic
philosophy.
logic.
Online Access: Full text (MFA users only)
ISBN:9780674042445
0674042441
Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • PREFACE, 1886
  • CONTENTS
  • 1 Meaning and Truth
  • Objection to propositions
  • Propositions as information
  • Diffuseness of empirical meaning
  • Propositions dismissed
  • Truth and semantic ascent
  • Tokens and eternal sentences
  • 2 Grammar
  • Grammar by recursion
  • Categories
  • Immanence and transcendence
  • Grammarian's goal reexamined
  • Logical grammar
  • Redundant devices
  • Names and functors
  • Lexicon, particle, and name
  • Criterion of lexicon
  • Time, events, adverbs
  • Attitudes and modality
  • 3 Truth
  • Truth and satisfaction
  • Satisfaction by sequencesTarski's definition of truth
  • Paradox in the object language
  • Resolution in set theory
  • 4 Logical Truth
  • In terms of structure
  • In terms of substitution
  • In terms of models
  • Adequacy of substitution
  • Saving on sets
  • In terms of proof
  • In terms of grammar
  • 5 The Scope of Logic
  • Affinities of identity
  • Identity reduced
  • Set theory
  • Set theory in sheep's clothing
  • Logic in wolf's clothing
  • Scope of the virtual theory
  • Simulated class quantification
  • Other simulated quantification
  • Annexes6 Deviant Logics
  • Change of logic, change of subject
  • Logic in translation
  • Law of excluded middle
  • Debate about the dichotomy
  • Intuitionism
  • Branched quantifiers
  • Substitutional quantification
  • Its strength
  • 7 The Ground of Logical Truth
  • The semblance of a theory
  • An untenable dualism
  • The place of logic
  • For Further Reading
  • Index

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