Titlebook: Knowledge, Language and Logic: Questions for Quine; Alex Orenstein,Petr Kotatko Book 2000 Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2000 L

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Quining The Apriorible character. The classical notion of . knowledge, and the view that our intuitions provide such knowledge, assumes that some knowledge is, for its justification, independent from experience. Since this view sins against the demands listed, Quine was very much right in having rejected it. In this p

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On the Existence of Meanings startling conclusion of the considerations Quine advanced in chapter II of . and which he has refined in subsequent writings, notably “Ontological Relativity” and ..l In the present essay I would like to hazard a reconstruction of Quine’s argument — a reconstruction which I hope does justice to it,

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Individual and Social in Quine’s Philosophy of Languagecessors appealed to meanings as entities of some kind, abstract or mental, and attempted to explain linguistic behavior on that basis. Quine, on the contrary, made our . of expressions basic and let meanings fall out as they may, showing, whatever one’s objections, how it might be done. He consisten

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Plato’s Beard, Quine’s Stubble And Ockham’s Razorge to logical theory. The thesis was provided by that early stage in analytic philosophy wherein when logical theory clashed with natural language, it was natural language that suffered. An epidemic of charges of meaninglessness occured. Among those charged as linguistic deviants were such purported

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Indefinite Objects of Higher Orderty through time. We wish now to consider an application to a particular, rigorously formulated theory. The theory of sets is especially apt for this role, since it brings into prominence the Quinean theme of identity conditions: “No entity without identity.” At the same time, our discussion will con

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On a Milestone of Empiricismnce connective purporting to express logical necessity, logical possibility, or strict implication. He has also presented a fully . argument against the possibility of satisfactory non-extensional connectives. It is easy to be lured into thinking that if definite descriptions (and also, perhaps, pro

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