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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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| "Fido" -Fido principle, philosophy: Gilbert Ryle's expression for the mistaken assumption that words function as names and therefore must designate something. In the extreme case that the typical dog name Fido stands for "dogness". See also proper names, descriptions, universals, reference, meaning._____________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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| Logic Texts | Fido-Fido-Principle | Logic Texts | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Fido-Fido-Principle | Quine | |
| Rorty, Richard | Fido-Fido-Principle | Rorty | |
| Schiffer, Stephen | Fido-Fido-Principle | Schiffer | |
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