Logic is Metaphysics

Authors

  • Daniel Durante Pereira Alves Departamento de Filosofia Centro de Ciências Humanas Letras e Artes Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5007/1808-1711.2011v15n1p31

Abstract

Analyzing the position of two philosophers whose views are recognizably divergent, W. O. Quine and M. Dummett, we intend to support a striking point of agreement between them: the idea that our logical principles constitute our principles about what there is, and therefore, that logic is metaphysics.

Author Biography

Daniel Durante Pereira Alves, Departamento de Filosofia Centro de Ciências Humanas Letras e Artes Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Departamento de Filosofia

Centro de Ciências Humanas Letras e Artes

Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte

Published

2011-01-01

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