Word and Object Studies in Communication Quine Willard Van OrmanPaperback
Word and Object Studies in Communication Quine Willard Van OrmanPaperback 2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art.…
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Word and Object Studies in Communication Quine Willard Van OrmanPaperback
2013 Reprint of 1960 Edition. Willard Van Orman Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a social art. Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software.
The book signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics and what has been called the "phony precision" of conceptual analysis. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." With "Word and Object" Quine challenged the tradition of conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. In the course of his discussion of meaning and the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference, Quine considers the indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects.
A profoundly influential work.