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From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays is a book written by the american philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine and published in 1953.

This book is a collection of articles in the tradition of analytic philosophy, particularly in the fields of epistemology, philosophy of language, ontology, and philosophy of mathematics. It is an important milestone in the development of Quine's philosophy.

It contains in particular :
 * The article "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", first published in 1951, in which Quine rejects the distinction between analytic and synthetic judgements as well as reductionism, i.e. the possibility of linking judgements directly to facts of experience. This text had a great philosophical posterity, it seriously questions the initial project of analytic philosophy, the logical positivism elaborated by the Vienna Circle. This doctrine consisted in limiting philosophy to the analysis of analytic propositions which is accompanied by a clear distinction between philosophy and science (which is dedicated to synthetic a posteriori judgement)  and  the impossibility of metaphysics (which would be synthetic a priori judgement). So the end of the distinction analytic and synthetic judgements open the route to both analytic metaphysics and naturalization of epistemology.
 * The article "On What Is", first published in 1948, which revived the ontological reflection within analytic philosophy.
 * The article "New Foundations for Mathematical Logic", firt published in 1937, which is Quine's most important text in mathematics. In this paper, Quine proposes an axiomatic theory alternative to the usual Zermelo-Fraenkel set theory.

Quine will developp further the views of From a Logical Point of View in Word and Object.