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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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Definition: determination of the use of linguistic signs (words, symbols, connectives) for non-linguistic or linguistic objects. New definitions are not supposed to be creative, that is, they are to be derived from the use of the signs already employed. See also definability, conservativity, systems, theories, models, reference systems, context definition, explicit defnition, implicit definition._____________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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Anscombe, G. E. M. | Definitions | Anscombe | |
Austin, J.L. | Definitions | Austin | |
Block, Ned | Definitions | Block | |
Carnap, Rudolf | Definitions | Carnap | |
Chalmers, David | Definitions | Chalmers | |
Dummett, Michael E. | Definitions | Dummett | |
Feynman, Richard | Definitions | Feynman | |
Fodor, Jerry | Definitions | Fodor | |
Frege, Gottlob | Definitions | Frege | |
Gadamer, Hans-Georg | Definitions | Gadamer | |
Genz, Hennig | Definitions | Genz | |
Gödel, Kurt | Definitions | Gödel | |
Goodman, Nelson | Definitions | Goodman | |
Grice, H. Paul | Definitions | Grice | |
Kripke, Saul A. | Definitions | Kripke | |
Leibniz, G.W. | Definitions | Leibniz | |
Lewis, David K. | Definitions | Lewis | |
Logic Texts | Definitions | Logic Texts | |
Mates, Benson | Definitions | Mates | |
Minsky, Marvin | Definitions | Minsky | |
Nagel, Thomas | Definitions | Nagel | |
Popper, Karl | Definitions | Popper | |
Putnam, Hilary | Definitions | Putnam | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Definitions | Quine | |
Rawls, John | Definitions | Rawls | |
Rorty, Richard | Definitions | Rorty | |
Saucier, Gerard | Definitions | Saucier | |
Schiffer, Stephen | Definitions | Schiffer | |
Searle, John R. | Definitions | Searle | |
Tarski, Alfred | Definitions | Tarski | |
Weizenbaum, Joseph | Definitions | Weizenbaum | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Definitions | Wittgenstein | |
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