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From a Logical Point of View
Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition
Willard Van Orman Quine
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From a Logical Point of View
Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition
Willard Van Orman Quine
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These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and referencesāsemantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed? And what considerations may suitably guide us in accepting or revising such ontological commitments? These are among the questions dealt with in this book, particular attention being devoted to the role of abstract entities in mathematics. There is speculation on the mechanism whereby objects of one sort or another come to be posited, a process in which the notion of identity plays an important part.
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Philosophy History & TheoryINDEX
Abstract: algebra 81; entities 3n, 45, 73; terms 21, 30, 76, 78. See also Attribute, Class, Name
Abstraction: of attributes 76, 156; of classes 30, 76ff, 87, 94ff, 104, 159; of functions 104; of relations 88; of universals 117ff; principle of 90, 96ff; vacuous 95, 159
Accident 22, 158
ACKERMANN, Wilhelm 90n, 120n
Actuality 3f
Aggregate 114f. See also Class
Algebra: abstract 81; of classes 87, 92, 128; of numbers 18, 45; of relations 128
Alternation 84
Alternative denial 81f, 84, 94
Ambiguity 32, 58, 67
Analytical: geometry 81; philosophy 157
Analyticity 20, 22f; and existence 161, 163; and modality 143, 150ā153, 156f; and postulation 35; and reductionism 41; and synonymy 27f, 31f, 151; contrasted with truth 130, 138; in artificial languages 32ā37
Ancestor 115
Antinomy, see Contradiction, Paradox
ARISTOTLE 22, 81, 155f
Arithmetic 18f, 45, 81, 92f, 127f
Artificial language 32ā37
Atomic sentence 23, 30, 166
Attribute 8ā11, 18, 75, 108, 156ff; versus class 107f, 119, 122f, 153
Aussonderung 96
Axiom 35, 88ff, 96f, 100f; of infinity 89, 93; of reducibility 125n, 127
BARCAN, Ruth 156
Behaviorism 48
Being and nonbeing 1ff, 7. See also Existence
Belief 142, 144, 148
BENTHAM, Jeremy 39, 42
BERNAYS, Paul 15n, 90n, 97n
BERRY, G. G. 134
Biconditional 32, 84
Bind, see Bound
BLACK, Max 15n
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