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As Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics and what Churchland calls the "phony precision" of conceptual analysis.
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44 Other objects for the attitudes 211 45 The double standard 216 46 Dispositions and conditionals 222 47 A framework for theory 226 Chapter VII. Ontic Decision 48 Nominalism and realism 233 49 False predilections. Ontic commitment 238 50 Entia non grata 243 51 Limit myths 248 52 Geometrical objects 251 Página 4 de 200
This edition offers a new preface by Quine's student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. In ...
Word and Object Taschenbuch – 1. Januar 1964. Englisch Ausgabe von Williard V. Quine (Autor) 4,7 20 Sternebewertungen. Alle Formate und Editionen anzeigen.
Word and Object is a masterpiece in modern philosophy and, as I worked through it, I was struck by how much more contemporary discussions in the domain make when I have Quine for context. The book sets up a number of the problems that Quine poses for historical views in philosophy of language, like problems with vagueness and translation, and then Quine offers an alternative account of how to ...
order to publish Word and Object, for he was bucking an overwhelmingly powerful tradition of conceptual analysis as a method of advancing knowl-edge. He was not just biting at its heels; he was rooting out the core. As he calmly noted, he wanted to view language as a physical phenomenon.
Abstract. In this volume, the second in the series, studies in Communication, Quine analyzes, within the framework of logical assumptions and problems, the philosophical nature of meaning and the way in which linguistic entities operate in objective reference situations. He begins with the premise that language is a social art, a set of ...
