A philosophical companion to first-order logic / edited, with an overview, by R.I.G. Hughes. - Indianapolis : Hackett Pub. Co., c1993. - viii, 309 p. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-302) and index.

Introduction / W.V. Quine -- Logical appraisal / P. F. Strawson -- Do conditionals have truth conditions? / Dorothy Edgington -- What do 'Q' and 'R' stand for anyway? / Richard E. Grandy -- Theories of truth / Paul Horwich -- The justification of deduction / Susan Haack -- Meanings of implification / John Corcoran -- Truth and Proof / Alfred Tarski -- Kant, Malcolm, and the Ontological Argument / Jonathan Bennett -- Quantifiers / Michael Dummett -- Existence and quantification / W. V. Quine -- The significance of "On Denoting" / Peter Hylton -- Gentzen's analysis of first-order proofs --On the idea of a general proof theory / Dag Prawitz -- What is logic? / Ian Hacking -- On first-order logic / R.I.G. Hughes.

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