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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.
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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.
 
Author Item    More concepts for author
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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