Philosophy of Logic : Second Edition.

Intro -- 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.

With customary incisiveness, Quine presents logic as the product of 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 extensions of logic, he argues that logic is not a mere matter of words.

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