Table of Contents

Preface.

1. Philosophical Logic, the Philosophy of Logic, Philosophy and Logic.

2. The Proposition.

3. Necessity, Analyticity and the A Priori.

4. Existence, Presuppositions and Descriptions.

5. Truth: The Pragmatic and Coherence and Correspondence Theories.

6. Truth: Semantics, Deflation, Idefinability and Evaluation.

7. Meaning, Reference, Verification and Use.

8. Truth, Meaning, Realism and Anti-realism.

9. Realism, Anti-realism, Idealism, Relativism.

Bibliography.

Index.

About the Author

A.C. Grayling is Reader in Philosophy at Birkbeck College, London and aFellow of St Anne's Colege, Oxford.