Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes About Logic

• Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

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  "Methods of Logic". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1950.

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• Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

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  "The web of belief". Book by Willard Van Orman Quine, 1970.

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• If pressed to supplement Tweedledee's ostensive definition of logic with a discursive definition of the same subject, I would say that logic is the systematic study of the logical truths. Pressed further, I would say that a sentence is logically true if all sentences with its grammatical structure are true. Pressed further still, I would say to read this book.

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• Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

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  Willard Van Orman Quine (1986). “Philosophy of Logic”, p.35, Harvard University Press

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• The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.

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  "Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine".

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