Preface to the Revised Edition Preface to the 1941 Edition 1. Introduction PART 1: STATEMENT COMPOSITION 2. Truth Values 3. Conjunction 4. Denial 5. 'Or' 6. 'But', 'although', 'unless' 7. 'If' 8. General and Subjunctive Conditionals 9. 'Because', 'hence', 'that' 10. Reduction to Conjunction and Denial 11. Grouping 12. Verbal Cues to Grouping 13. Paraphrasing Inward PART 2: TRUTH-FUNCTIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS 14. Substitution in Truth-Functional Schemata 15. Instances 16. Equivalent Schemata 17. Truth-Functional Equivalence 18. Replacement 19. Transformation 20. Proofs of Equivalence 21. Alternation and Duality 22. Normal Schemata 23. Validity 24. Truth-Functional Truth 25. Inconsistency and Truth-Functional Falsity 26. Implication between Schemata 27. Truth-Functional Implication PART 3: QUANTIFICATION 28. 'Something' 29. Quantifiers 30. Variables and Open Sentences 31. Variants of 'Some' 32. 'Some' Restricted 33. 'No' 34. 'Every' 35. Variants of 'Every' 36. Persons 37. Times and Places 38. Quantification in Context PART 4: QUANTIFICATIONAL INFERENCE 39. Quantificational Schemata 40. Predicates 41. Restraints on Introducing 42. Substitution Extended 43. Validity Extended 44. Equivalence Extended 45. Inconsistency Proofs 46. Logical Arguments 47. Identity and Singular Terms 48. Membership Index
W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.
Combines exemplary clarity and precision with an unusual vividness
and originality in style which actually make the study of the work
a fascinating adventure—no small achievement in the reputedly
dullest and most barren field of scientific research.
*Philosophic Abstracts*
A masterpiece of clarity and analysis, setting forth at once
briefly and comprehensively an introduction to formal logic that
few can match.
*Philosophical Studies*
It will serve the purpose of inculcating, by precept and example,
standards of clarity and precision which are, even in formal logic,
more often pursued than achieved. Viewed as a whole, the system of
logic explained in this book comes nearer than any previous attempt
to conforming with the regulative ideals of the mathematical
logician… This advance in unification and deductive elegance is not
achieved at the expense of rigour; while the striking nature of the
gain in the conciseness of the whole may be verified by any reader
who will compare the length of this book with that of the
corresponding sections in Principia… Every section of this book
provides evidence of rare skill, both in research and
communication; it deserves to be read and read again by all who
have a serious interest in mathematical logic.
*Mind*
For Quine, of course, the territory of logic seems but an extension
of his own back yard, so assuredly does he walk there where others
tread only with brainracking caution. And as he is both master
innovator and master explicator, with a masterful prose style to
boot, any work of his is a painless necessity.
*Choice*
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