What is a logical constant?

Ernest Sosa

pp. 253-256

in: Robert S. Cohen, Mark W. Wartofsky (eds), Methodological and historical essays in the natural and social sciences, Berlin, Springer, 1974

Abstract

The main question discussed by Sommers — what is a logical constant? — leads him to develop what he considers a simple and uniform account of the logical constants, one that sharply distinguishes logical and descriptive elements of sentences.