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Notes to Willard Van Orman Quine. 1. We focus here on the issue of how stimulation patterns are to be divided into types. Responses—primarily utterances—are also specific events which need to be grouped into types if we are to correlate them with stimulation patterns. We shall, however, ignore that issue here. 2. Somewhat less roughly: A is ...
May 28, 2006 · Willard Van Orman Quine was born in Akron, Ohio, on June 25, 1908. His father, Cloyd Robert Quine, was an Akron businessman with a machine shop background. In 1917, Cloyd Quine founded the Akron Equipment Company, whose business was the manufacture of tire molds. The business flourished, what with Akron being then the rubber tire capital of the ...
The most naive view of the relationship is that it is one of direct report. This is radical reduction. Every meaningful statement is held to be translatable into a statement (true or false) about immediate experience. Radical reductionism, in one form or another, well antedates the verification theory of meaning explicitly so-called.
Home page for Willard Van Orman Quine, mathematician and philosopher who held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956-2000. Over the last half century his literary output was prodigious in such areas as mathematical logic, set theory, the philosophy of language, and the philosophy of logic.
Two Dogmas of Empiricism. Willard Van Orman Quine. Originally published in The Philosophical Review 60 (1951): 20-43. Reprinted in W.V.O. Quine, From a Logical Point of View (Harvard University Press, 1953; second, revised, edition 1961), with the following alterations: "The version printed here diverges from the original in footnotes and in ...
Willard Van Orman Quine. Willard Van Orman Quine ( Akron, 25 giugno 1908 – Boston, 25 dicembre 2000) è stato un filosofo e logico statunitense . Di solito indicato come "W. V. O. Quine" ha ricoperto la cattedra Edgar Pierce di filosofia della Harvard University dal 1956 al 2000. Chiamato da taluni "il filosofo del filosofo", è il modello ...
Willard Van Orman Quine, Chestnut Street, died on December 25, 2000, following a brief illness. He was 92. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor Emeritus of philosophy at Harvard University, and was recognized as a world leader in mathematical logic, set theory and the philosophy of language.
