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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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Variables, philosophy: variables are symbols in statements or logical formulas, in the place of which various, more precise determinations, such as constants or names of objects, can be inserted. In logic, free and bound variables are distinguished. Free variables, which are not bound by a quantifier such as (Ex) or (x), do not form a statement yet but a statement function such as e.g. "Fx" - "Something is F". Numbers or objects are not variable entities. The variability consists in the applicability of more than one possible value. See also free variables, bound variables, constants, individual constants, individual variables, substitution, substitutability, logic, statements, statement function, formulas._____________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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Black, Max | Variables | Black | |
Chomsky, Noam | Variables | Chomsky | |
Cresswell, Maxwell J. | Variables | Cresswell | |
Deleuze, Gilles | Variables | Deleuze | |
Frege, Gottlob | Variables | Frege | |
Geach, Peter | Variables | Geach | |
Guattari, Felix | Variables | Guattari | |
Lewis, David K. | Variables | Lewis | |
Lyons, John | Variables | Lyons | |
Mates, Benson | Variables | Mates | |
Perry, John | Variables | Perry | |
Prior, Arthur N. | Variables | Prior | |
Quine, W.V.O. | Variables | Quine | |
Russell, Bertrand | Variables | Russell | |
Schönfinkel, Moses | Variables | Schönfinkel | |
Simons, Peter M. | Variables | Simons | |
Stalnaker, Robert | Variables | Stalnaker | |
Stechow, Arnim von | Variables | Stechow | |
Tarski, Alfred | Variables | Tarski | |
Wittgenstein, Ludwig | Variables | Wittgenstein | |
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