From a Logical Point of View

Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition

Willard Van Orman Quine

• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Année: 1980
• ISBN:
  9780674254442
• Sujet: Philosophy
• Sous-sujet: Philosophy History & Theory

These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references—semantics. 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.

INDEX

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, 150–153, 156f; and postulation 35; and reductionism 41; and synonymy 27f, 31f, 151; contrasted with truth 130, 138; in artificial languages 32–37

Ancestor 115

Antinomy, see Contradiction, Paradox

ARISTOTLE 22, 81, 155f

Arithmetic 18f, 45, 81, 92f, 127f

Artificial language 32–37

Atomic sentence 23, 30, 166

Attribute 8–11, 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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