From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition - Softcover

Quine, Willard Van Orman

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0674323513 ISBN 13: 9780674323513

Verlag: Harvard University Press, 1980

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from a logical point of view : editado por Harvard UP

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This volume of essays has a unity and bears throughout the imprint of Quine's powerful and original mind. It is written with the felicity in the choice of words which makes everything that Quine writes a pleasure to read, and which ranks him among the best contemporary writers on abstract subjects. Cambridge Review Professor Quine's challenging and original views are here for the first time presented as a unity. The chief merit of the book is the heart-searching from which it arose and to which it will give rise. In vigour, conciseness, and clarity, it is characteristic of its author. Oxford Magazine

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These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references-semantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed? And what considerations may suitably guide us in accepting or revising such ontological commitments? These are among the questions dealt with in this book, particular attention being devoted to the role of abstract entities in mathematics. There is speculation on the mechanism whereby objects of one sort or another come to be posited, a process in which the notion of identity plays an important part.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0674323513
• ISBN 13: 9780674323513
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 2
• Anzahl der Seiten: 200