From a Logical Point of View : 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays

Willard van Orman Quine

ISBN 10: 0674323513 / ISBN 13: 9780674323513

Edité par Harvard University Press, 1980

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Neuware - Several of these essays have been printed whole in journals; others are in varying degrees new. Two main themes run through them. One is the problem of meaning, particularly as involved in the notion of an analytic statement. The other is the notion of ontological, commitment, particularly as involved in the problem of universals.

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• Titre: From a Logical Point of View : 9 Logico-Philosophical Essays
• Éditeur: Harvard University Press
• Date de parution: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0674323513
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780674323513
• Reliure: Taschenbuch
• Édition: 3ème Édition
• État de l'article: Neu

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Synopsis

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.

À propos de l?auteur

W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.