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W.V.O. Quine - Philosophy Dictionary of Arguments | |||
W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000), American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition. His major works include From a Logical Point of View (1953) and Word and Object (1960). His fields of specialization were philosophy of language, epistemology, metaphysics, and logic.
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Atomism (philosophy, logic): A) Atomism is the assumption that the facts can be represented by elementary sentences. Thus the question of the independence of facts is raised. See also Atomic sentences, Humean supervenience, Causality. B) In relation to the world, the atomism of ancient philosophy assumes that there are smallest units, the atoms. These are sometimes thought of as having a particular shape._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Ancient Philosophy | Atomism | Ancient Philosophy | |
Descartes, R. | Atomism | Descartes | |
Duhem, Pierre | Atomism | Duhem | |
Fodor, Jerry | Atomism | Fodor | |
Hempel, Carl | Atomism | Hempel | |
Leibniz, G.W. | Atomism | Leibniz | |
Logic Texts | Atomism | Logic Texts | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Atomism | Quine | |
Russell, Bertrand | Atomism | Russell | |
Sellars, Wilfrid | Atomism | Sellars | |
Simons, Peter M. | Atomism | Simons | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Atomism | Wittgenstein | |
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