ABSTRACT

The main purpose of Professor Quine’s article, Two Dogmas o f Empiricism, is to discredit a certain group of non-extensional notions, which includes those of logical

necessity, logical impossibility, and synonymity or identity of meaning. His article

contains, besides arguments directed to this aim, a certain characterization of truths

of logic. I shall try to show that this characterization is coherent only if we suppose

that it makes implicit use of one or more of the notions which it is the main purpose

of the article to discredit.