Abstract
conceptual connectedness, which they cannot discern in the usual farraginous reading lists of anthologies and journal articles. To give some indication of the scope of the book, the chapter headings are: I. 'Philosophy of logics'; 2. Validity; 3. Sentence connectives; 4. Quantifiers; 5. Singular terms; 6. Sentences, statements, propositions; 7. Theories of truth; 8. Paradoxes; 9. Logic and logics; io. Modal logic; ii. Many-valued logic; 12. Some metaphysical and epistemological questions about logic. Anyone familiar with the literature will realise how much controversy has to be condensed under each heading. The impressive bibliography alone, if blended in the way one can expect from Haack's fair and even hand, would result in only the most anodyne discussion. Haack can serve as background reading at the very best. One must, as she herself does, point the student firmly in the direction of the classical sources. Otherwise Haack's tentativeness, and way of abruptly ending a discussion just when it starts to bear the fruits of deeper disagreement, might be taken as a model of philosophical style; and the student, in learning the price of every idea, will appreciate the value of none. At several points Haack's survey style renders her discussion too superficial:
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