Philosophy of logic / W.V. Quine.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 103-104) and index.

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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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