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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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Definability: is about the question whether the meanings of linguistic elements and symbols of a statement in a given frame, a theory, a model or a system can be stated in a way that these elements and symbols can be replaced by other symbols. This replacement is to aid understanding. Is this the case new symbols (words, terms, links) can be created the meaning of which can be understood from the symbols already defined. Therefore these new symbols are definable. See also definition, context definition, implicit definition, explicit definition, models, systems, theories, foundation._____________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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Feynman, Richard | Definability | Feynman | |
Fodor, Jerry | Definability | Fodor | |
Genz, Hennig | Definability | Genz | |
Kripke, Saul A. | Definability | Kripke | |
Mostowski, Andrzej | Definability | Mostowski | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Definability | Quine | |
Rorty, Richard | Definability | Rorty | |
Stalnaker, Robert | Definability | Stalnaker | |
Tarski, Alfred | Definability | Tarski | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Definability | Wittgenstein | |
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