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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._____________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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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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