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New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2018. Although Quine wrote predominantly in English, in Brazil in 1942 he gave a series of lectures on logic and its philosophy in Portuguese, subsequently published as the book O Sentido da Nova Logica. The book has never before been fully translated into English, and this volume is the first to make its content accessible to Anglophone philosophers.

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Provides philosophers, logicians, and historians with a full translation of Quine's 1942 Portuguese language book, making this crucial stage of his intellectual development available to English speakers. It includes an accompanying historical-philosophical essay setting this work in context and identifying its importance for semantics and ontology.
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Table of Contents

Editors' introduction Walter Carnielli, Frederique Janssen-Lauret and William Pickering; W. V. O. Quine's philosophical development in the 1930s and 1940s Frederique Janssen-Lauret; The Significance of the New Logic W. V. O. Quine; Appendix. The United States and the revival of logic W. V. O. Quine.