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Philosophy of Logic.
Title:
Philosophy of Logic.
Author:
Quine, W. V.
ISBN:
9780674042445
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Edition:
2nd ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (128 pages)
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 sequences -- Tarski'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 -- Annexes -- 6 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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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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