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Willard Van Orman Quine: W.V.O. Quine (1908 – 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic philosophy, considered one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Major works are From a Logical Point of View (1953), Word and Object (1960), The Philosophy of Logic (1970), Ontological Relativity (1969), Pursuits of Truth (1990). See also Indeterminacy, Translation, Gavagai, Reference, Meaning, Truth, Logic, Ontological relativity, Conceptual schemes._____________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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Ruth Millikan on Quine - Dictionary of Arguments
I 149 Quine/Millikan: Quine is right when he speaks of a "variety of connections" between words and experience. Even members of the same linguistic community are "differently trimmed bushes". >Experience/Quine, >Experience/Wittgenstein. I 150 Millikan: Problem: what is then "the" Intension? Inner expression/Millikan: e.g. "red" here everyone must have an inner term that corresponds to "red". Definition language-bound intensions/terminology/Millikan: be the volatile (acquired) intensions that one must have in order to have a word in its idiolect. These must be public. N.B.: language-bound intensions never correspond to synonyms e.g. "rot" - "red". ((s) Because the language use could be different in English.) >Language behavior, >Intension._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Millikan I R. G. Millikan Language, Thought, and Other Biological Categories: New Foundations for Realism Cambridge 1987 Millikan II Ruth Millikan "Varieties of Purposive Behavior", in: Anthropomorphism, Anecdotes, and Animals, R. W. Mitchell, N. S. Thomspon and H. L. Miles (Eds.) Albany 1997, pp. 189-1967 In Der Geist der Tiere, D Perler/M. Wild, Frankfurt/M. 2005 |