This thinker designed a system for first order logic in which quantified variables are omitted, which he dubbed "predicate functor logic." He described how a scientist can learn to speak the "jungle" language by observing natives do things like say "gavagai" while pointing at a rabbit. This man wrote an essay criticizing Ru
This thinker designed a system for first order logic in which quantified variables are omitted, which he dubbed "predicate functor logic." He described how a scientist can learn to speak the "jungle" language by observing natives do things like say "gavagai" while pointing at a rabbit. This man wrote an essay criticizing Rudolf Carnap's attempts to create a sense-datum language. This philosopher defined his idea of the indeterminacy of translation in his book Word and Object. That essay defined the ideas of reductionism and the analytic-synthetic distinction as the title concepts that the logical positivists believed in. For 10 points, name this author of the essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism".
This thinker designed a system for first order logic in which quantified variables are omitted, which he dubbed "predicate functor logic."
Willard Van Orman Quine