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

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1980

Synopsis

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.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Several of these essays have been printed whole in journals; others are in varying degrees new. Two main themes run through them. One is the problem of meaning, particularly as involved in the notion of an analytic statement. The other is the notion of ontological, commitment, particularly as involved in the problem of universals.

About the Author

W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1980
• ISBN 10: 0674323513
• ISBN 13: 9780674323513
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 3
• Number of pages: 200