| Description |
219 pages ; 22 cm |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 209-213. |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Contents |
Things and their place in theories -- Empirical content -- What price bivalence? -- On the very idea of a third dogma -- Use and its place in meaning -- On the nature of moral values -- Five milestones of empiricism -- Russell's ontological development -- On Austin's method -- Smart's philosophy and scientific realism -- Goodman's ways of worldmaking -- On the individuation of attributes -- Intentions revisited -- Worlds Away -- Grades of discriminability -- Lewis Carroll's logic -- Kurt Godel -- Success and limits of mathematization -- On the limits of decision -- Predicates, terms, and classes -- Responses -- Postscript on metaphor -- Has philosophy lost contact with people? -- Paradoxes of plenty -- Times atlas -- Mencken's American language. |
| Subject |
Philosophy -- Miscellanea.
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Philosophy. |
| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Subject |
Philosophie. |
| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman) Theories and things. Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 1981 (OCoLC)609721561 |
| ISBN |
0674879252 |
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9780674879256 |
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