Single Idea 10064

[catalogued under 5. Theory of Logic / C. Ontology of Logic / 3. If-Thenism]

Full Idea

Quine quickly dismisses If-thenism.

Gist of Idea

Quine quickly dismisses If-thenism

Source

report of Willard Quine (Truth by Convention [1935], p.327) by Alan Musgrave - Logicism Revisited §5

Book Reference

-: 'British Soc for the Philosophy of Science' [-], p.121


A Reaction

[Musgrave quotes a long chunk of Quine which is hard to compress!] Effectively, he says If-thenism is cheating, or begs the question, by eliminating whole sections of perfectly good mathematics, because they cannot be derived from axioms.