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.