This book considers quotation and concatenation as two illustrations of the "virtues of defiÂnition as a method of eatingone's cake and having it" in a discussion of "DeÂfinition and the Double Life." Among the issues considered in this book'sfiÂnal chapter, titled "Ontic Decision," is the dispute between nominalism and realism and the usefulness of "Limit myths" inmath and physics. This book's fourth chapter is dedica
This book considers quotation and concatenation as two illustrations of the "virtues of defiÂnition as a method of eatingone's cake and having it" in a discussion of "DeÂfinition and the Double Life." Among the issues considered in this book'sfiÂnal chapter, titled "Ontic Decision," is the dispute between nominalism and realism and the usefulness of "Limit myths" inmath and physics. This book's fourth chapter is dedicated to the analysis of "Vagaries of reference," and another section ofthis book suggests that "every proposition [is] nameable by applying brackets to one or another eternal sentence," the latterbeing taken to be "not an event of utterance, but a linguistic form." This book suggests renouncing the use of "attributes"and "relations" in philosophy. A central distinction in this book is between "standing sentences" and "occasion sentences,"the latter of which include "It hurts" and "Gavagai," which may be a co-extensive term with "rabbit." For 10 points, identifythis book that discusses the "indeterminacy of translation," written in 1960 by Willard Van Orman Quine.
This book considers quotation and concatenation as two illustrations of the "virtues of defiÂnition as a method of eatingone's cake and having it" in a discussion of "DeÂfinition and the Double Life."
Word and Object