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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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Nominalism: nominalism is the view that universals (for example, triangles, blackness) are merely artificial constructions from individual cases. The linguistic expressions are merely names for these constructs. See also universalism, conceptualism, general terms, categories, generalization, generality._____________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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Adorno, Th.W. | Nominalism | Adorno | |
Armstrong, David M. | Nominalism | Armstrong | |
Bigelow, John | Nominalism | Bigelow | |
Field, Hartry | Nominalism | Field | |
Fraassen, Bas van | Nominalism | Fraassen | |
Gadamer, Hans-Georg | Nominalism | Gadamer | |
Goodman, Nelson | Nominalism | Goodman | |
Grice, H. Paul | Nominalism | Grice | |
Hacking, Ian | Nominalism | Hacking | |
Kotarbinski, T. | Nominalism | Kotarbinski | |
Leibniz, G.W. | Nominalism | Leibniz | |
Lorenzen, Paul | Nominalism | Lorenzen | |
Martin, Charles B. | Nominalism | Martin | |
Meixner, Uwe | Nominalism | Meixner | |
Millikan, Ruth | Nominalism | Millikan | |
Nietzsche, Friedrich | Nominalism | Nietzsche | |
Place, Ullin Thomas | Nominalism | Place | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Nominalism | Quine | |
Rorty, Richard | Nominalism | Rorty | |
Saussure, Ferdinand de | Nominalism | Saussure | |
Searle, John R. | Nominalism | Searle | |
Sellars, Wilfrid | Nominalism | Sellars | |
Simons, Peter M. | Nominalism | Simons | |
Tugendhat, E. | Nominalism | Tugendhat | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Nominalism | Wittgenstein | |
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