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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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Reduction, philosophy: reduction is the tracing back of a set of statements to another set of statements by rephrasing and replacing concepts of a subject domain by concepts from another subject domain. There must be conditions for the substitutability of a concept from the first domain by a concept from the second domain. An example of a reduction is the tracing back of mental concepts to physical concepts or to behavior. See also bridge laws, reductionism, translation, identity theory, materialism, physical/psychical, physicalism, eliminationism, functionalism, roles, indeterminacy.
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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.
 
Author Item    More concepts for author
Avramides, Anita Reduction   Avramides
Chalmers, David Reduction   Chalmers
Darwin, Charles Reduction   Darwin
Duhem, Pierre Reduction   Duhem
Dummett, Michael E. Reduction   Dummett
Esfeld, Michael Reduction   Esfeld
Fodor, Jerry Reduction   Fodor
Freud, Sigmund Reduction   Freud
Grice, H. Paul Reduction   Grice
Hintikka, Jaakko Reduction   Hintikka
Leibniz, G.W. Reduction   Leibniz
Lewis, David K. Reduction   Lewis
Maturana, Humberto Reduction   Maturana
Quine, W.V.O. Reduction   Quine
Schiffer, Stephen Reduction   Schiffer
Searle, John R. Reduction   Searle
Stalnaker, Robert Reduction   Stalnaker
Vollmer, Gerhard Reduction   Vollmer

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