BLACKWELL PHILOSOPHY ANTHOLOGIES Each volume in this outstanding series provides an authoritative and comprehensive collection of the essential primary readings from philosophy’s main fields of study. Designed to complement the Blackwell Companions to Philosophy series, each volume represents an unparalleled resource in its own right, and will provide the ideal platform for course use. Cottingham: Western Philosophy: An Anthology Cahoone: From Modernism to Postmodernism: An Anthology LaFollette: Ethics in Practice: An Anthology (second edition) Goodin and Pettit: Contemporary Political Philosophy: An Anthology Eze: African Philosophy: An Anthology McNeill and Feldman: Continental Philosophy: An Anthology Kim and Sosa: Metaphysics: An Anthology Lycan: Mind and Cognition: An Anthology (second edition) Kuhse and Singer: Bioethics: An Anthology Cummins and Cummins: Minds, Brains, and Computers — The Foundations of Cognitive Science: An Anthology 11 Sosa and Kim: Epistemology: An Anthology 12 Kearney and Rasmussen: Continental Aesthetics ~ Romanticism to Postmodernism: An Anthology 13° Martinich and Sosa: Analytic Philosophy: An Anthology 14 Jacquette: Philosophy of Logic: An Anthology 15 Jacquette: Philosophy of Mathematics: An Anthology 16 Harris, Pratt, and Waters: American Philosophy: An Anthology 17 Emmanuel and Goold: Modern Philosophy: From Descartes to Nietzsche Scordsusun—Edited by Dale Jacquette BLACKWELLCopyright © Blackwell Publishers Ltd 2002 Editorial matter and organization copyright © Dale Jacquette 2002 First published 2002 24681097531 Blackwell Publishers Inc. 350 Main Street, Malden, Massachusetts 02148 USA Blackwell Publishers Ltd 108 Cowley Road Oxford OX4 IJF UK All rights reserved. Except for the quotation of short passages for the purposes of criticism and review, no part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted, in any form or by any means, electronic, ‘mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without the prior permission of the publisher. Except in the United States of America, this book is sold subject to the condition that it shall not, by way of trade or otherwise, be lent, resold, hired out, or otherwise circulated without the publisher’s prior consent in any form of binding. ‘or cover other than that in which itis published and without a similar condition including this condition being imposed on the subsequent purchaser. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Philosophy of logic: an anthology / edited by Dale Jacquette. p.cm, — (Blackwell philosophy anthologies; 14) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-631-21867-X (alk. paper) — ISBN 0-631-21868-8 (pb. : alk. paper) 1, Logic. I. Jacquette, Dale. Il. Series. BC71 P55 2002 160-—de21 2001018476 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A CIP catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ‘Typeset in 9 on 1 pt Ehrhardt by Kolam Information Services Pvt Ltd, Pondicherry, India Printed in Great Britain by MPG Books Ltd, Bodmin, Comwall “This book is printed on acid-free paper.