Quine Quotes

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Passages from (and occasionally about) the writings of Willard Van Orman Quine (6/25/1908 - 12/25/2000), American philosopher and logician. Edited by .

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Vrijeme pridruživanja: travanj 2018.
Rođen/a 1908.

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    17. stu 2019.

    ["In Quest of Quine," Harvard Magazine, 1987]

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  2. prije 15 sati

    'True' is transparent. (Pursuit of Truth)

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  3. prije 15 sati

    We understand what it is for the sentence 'Snow is white' to be true as clearly as we understand what it is for snow to be white. Evidently one who puzzles over the adjective 'true' should puzzle rather over the sentences to which he ascribes it. +

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  4. prije 15 sati

    But in a looser sense the disquotational account does define truth. It tells us what it is for any sentence to be true, and it tells us this in terms just as clear to us as the sentence in question itself. +

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  5. prije 15 sati

    The disquotational account of truth does not define the truth predicate--not in the strict sense of 'definition'; for definition in the strict sense tells how to eliminate the defined expression from every desired context in favor of previously established notation. +

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    3. velj

    waiting for a courageous philosopher of language to argue that if the entire USA was well represented by the Chiefs then a fortiori so was Kansas, so he spoke truly, and the proposition that KC is in Kansas is merely an implicature, which he cancelled

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  7. 2. velj

    His problem is that of finding ways, in keeping with natural science, whereby the human animal can have projected this same science from the sensory information that could reach him according to this science. (The Roots of Reference)

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    Clearly, in confronting this challenge, the epistemologist may make free use of all scientific theory. +

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  9. 2. velj

    and some gaseous reactions in the nasal passages and a few kindred odds and ends. How, the challenge proceeds, could one hope to find out about that external world from such meager traces? In short, if our science were true, how could we know it? +

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  10. 2. velj

    Science itself teaches that there is no clairvoyance; that the only information that can reach our sensory surfaces from external objects must be limited to two-dimensional optical projections and various impacts of air waves on the eardrums +

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  11. 2. velj

    The crucial logical point is that the epistemologist is confronting a challenge to natural science that arises from within natural science. The challenge runs as follows. +

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  12. 2. velj

    but on the other hand, 'If you do say something about something, don't think you can escape the consequences by saying you were only talking.' " (Nelson Goodman, introduction to W.V. Quine, The Roots of Reference)

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  13. 2. velj

    "In Professor Quine's many encounters with reference he has always insisted on such sterling principles as: 'Don't refer to what isn't'; 'Don't suppose that merely by talking you are saying anything about anything'; +

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  14. 1. velj

    "I will leave the defence of Quine to Quine, who is quite capable of looking after himself." (Russell, "Mr. Strawson on Referring")

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  15. 1. velj

    In the case of systems of the world, on the other hand, one is prepared to believe that reality exceeds the scope of the human apparatus in unspecifiable ways. (Pursuit of Truth)

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  16. 1. velj

    Another distinctive point about the indeterminacy of translation is that it clearly has nothing to do with inaccessible facts and human limitations. Dispositions to observable behavior are all there is for semantics to be right or wrong about. +

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    But the indeterminacy of translation is additional to the other. If we settle upon one of the empirically equivalent systems of the world, however arbitrarily, we still have within it the indeterminacy of translation. +

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    There is an evident parallel between the empirical underdetermination of global science and the indeterminacy of translation. In both cases the totality of possible evidence is insufficient to clinch the system uniquely. +

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  19. 1. velj

    Bertrand Russell's home recordings discovered - BBC News

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  20. 28. sij

    The quotational account nicely dramatizes it, for the quotation designates a mere string of phonemes or signs, whose syntax and semantics, if any, are a strictly internal affair. (Pursuit of Truth)

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  21. 28. sij

    Likewise we must beware of quantifying into such a clause, for the values of the variable of our outlying quantifier are the things of our real world, and might not fit the attitudinist's ontology. Such is the referential opacity of the propositional attitudes. +

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