Quine: From A ∗logical Point∗ Of View: Nine Logico – Philosophical Essays Rev Ed (cloth) - Hardcover

QUINE, WV

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0674323505 ISBN 13: 9780674323506

Publisher: Harvard University Press, 1974

Synopsis

From a Logical Point of View [Jul 01, 1974] QUINE, WV. semantics.

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Review

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. 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.

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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Publication date: 1974
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0674323505
• ISBN 13: 9780674323506
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 200