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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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Principles, philosophy of science: physical principles are not the same as laws of nature. Rather, laws can be gained from principles or traced back to principles. Examples are the principle of the shortest time, the principle of the smallest effect, the uncertainty principle. See also theories, laws of nature, laws, natural constants._____________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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Barrow, John D. | Principles | Barrow | |
Descartes, R. | Principles | Descartes | |
Duhem, Pierre | Principles | Duhem | |
Dworkin, Ronald | Principles | Dworkin | |
Economic Theories | Principles | Economic Theories | |
Feyerabend, Paul | Principles | Feyerabend | |
Feynman, Richard | Principles | Feynman | |
Genz, Hennig | Principles | Genz | |
Gould, Stephen Jay | Principles | Gould | |
Guth, Alan | Principles | Guth | |
Hume, David | Principles | Hume | |
Kant, Immanuel | Principles | Kant | |
Leibniz, G.W. | Principles | Leibniz | |
Nagel, Thomas | Principles | Nagel | |
Nozick, Robert | Principles | Nozick | |
Peacocke, Christopher | Principles | Peacocke | |
Poincaré, Henri | Principles | Poincaré | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Principles | Quine | |
Rawls, John | Principles | Rawls | |
Rescher, Nicholas | Principles | Rescher | |
Rorty, Richard | Principles | Rorty | |
Russell, Bertrand | Principles | Russell | |
Searle, John R. | Principles | Searle | |
Simons, Peter M. | Principles | Simons | |
Strawson, Peter F. | Principles | Strawson | |
Thorne, Kip | Principles | Thorne | |
Wessel, H. | Principles | Wessel | |
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