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 extensions of logic, Quine argues that logic is not a mere matter of words.

W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.

Read More by W. V. Quine:

• Elementary Logic, Revised Edition
• From Stimulus to Science
• From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition
• Mathematical Logic, Revised Edition
• Methods of Logic, Fourth Edition
• Pursuit of Truth, Revised Edition
• Set Theory and Its Logic, Revised Edition
• Selected Logic Papers, Enlarged Edition
• Theories and Things
• The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays, Revised Edition
• Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary
• Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine
• Quine in Dialogue
• Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays