Quine, Willard Van Orman - From A Logical Point of View

Several of these essays have been printed whole in journals; others are in varying degrees new. Two main themes run through them. One is the problem of meaning, particularly as involved in the notion of an analytical statement. The other is the notion of ontological commitment, particularly as involved in the problem of universals.

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Furthermore, the rules of inference by existential generalization and universal instantiation, in the anomalous form in which they have to do with singular terms,¹² are reduced to the status of derivable rules and thus eliminated from the theoretical foundations of logic.