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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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Decidability: a question, for example, whether a property applies to an object or not, is decidable if a result can be achieved within a finite time. For this decision process, an algorithm is chosen as a basis. See also halting problem, algorithms, procedures, decision theory._____________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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Chaitin, Gregory | Decidability | Chaitin | |
Cresswell, Maxwell J. | Decidability | Cresswell | |
Dummett, Michael E. | Decidability | Dummett | |
Field, Hartry | Decidability | Field | |
Genz, Hennig | Decidability | Genz | |
Hilbert, David | Decidability | Hilbert | |
Hintikka, Jaakko | Decidability | Hintikka | |
Leibniz, G.W. | Decidability | Leibniz | |
Logic Texts | Decidability | Logic Texts | |
Lorenzen, Paul | Decidability | Lorenzen | |
Mates, Benson | Decidability | Mates | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Decidability | Quine | |
Tarski, Alfred | Decidability | Tarski | |
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