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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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| Opacity, philosophy: also opacity of the reference. A problem with propositions (meanings of uttered sentences related to a speaker) is that one cannot be certain that one knows what an utterance refers to. E.g. in an empty room is a blackboard with the inscription "I am hungry". See also intensions, propositions, propositional attitudes, reference, inscrutability, quotation._____________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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| Boer, Steven E. | Opacity | Boer | |
| Castaneda, Hector-Neri | Opacity | Castaneda | |
| Fodor, Jerry | Opacity | Fodor | |
| Frege, Gottlob | Opacity | Frege | |
| Hintikka, Jaakko | Opacity | Hintikka | |
| Kripke, Saul A. | Opacity | Kripke | |
| Lanier, Jaron | Opacity | Lanier | |
| Lewis, David K. | Opacity | Lewis | |
| Quine, W.V.O. | Opacity | Quine | |
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