Words and Objections: Essays on the Work of W. V. Quine.

Richard E. Grandy, Donald Davidson, Jaakko Hintikka

1973-01-01articleThe Philosophical Review208 citationsclosed

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Abstract

Editorial Introduction.- Quine's Philosophy of Science.- An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object.- Beginning with Ordinary Things.- Quine's Empirical Assumptions.- Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation.- Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation.- Singular Terms and Predication.- Vacuous Names.- Quine's Syntactical Insights.- On Saying That.- Quine on Modality.- Some Problems about Belief.- Quantifying In.- Logic with Platonism.- On the Consistency of a Slight (?) Modification of Quine's New Foundations.- Replies.- Publications of W. V. Quine.

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