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| Willard Van Orman Quine: W.V.O. Quine (1908 – 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic philosophy, considered one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century. Major works are From a Logical Point of View (1953), Word and Object (1960), The Philosophy of Logic (1970), Ontological Relativity (1969), Pursuits of Truth (1990). See also Indeterminacy, Translation, Gavagai, Reference, Meaning, Truth, Logic, Ontological relativity, Conceptual schemes._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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J. Hintikka on Quine - Dictionary of Arguments
II 13 Modal Logic/Quine/Hintikka: Quine has retreated and said that there must be nothing self-contradictory in the use of modalities in our object language. Problem: a problem are the meta-language expressions in the object language. Hintikka: this is indeed a problem, but only a few philosophers are aware of it. >Object language, >Metalanguage, >Modalities._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Hintikka I Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka Investigating Wittgenstein German Edition: Untersuchungen zu Wittgenstein Frankfurt 1996 Hintikka II Jaakko Hintikka Merrill B. Hintikka The Logic of Epistemology and the Epistemology of Logic Dordrecht 1989 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19