On an Argument for Truth-Functionality

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American Philosophical Quarterly 9 (3):265 - 269 (1972)
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Quine argued that any context allowing substitution of logical equivalents and coextensive terms is truth functional. We argue that Quine's proof for this claim is flawed.

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