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From a Logical Point of View
Willard Van Orman Quine
其他書名
Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition
出版
Harvard University Press
, 1980-05-15
主題
Philosophy / General
Philosophy / Aesthetics
Philosophy / Logic
ISBN
0674323513
9780674323513
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=5F4PEAAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
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These nine essays are largely concerned with the theory of meaning and references—semantics. At the same time adjacent portions of philosophy and logic are discussed. To the existence of what objects may a given scientific theory be said to be committed? And what considerations may suitably guide us in accepting or revising such ontological commitments? These are among the questions dealt with in this book, particular attention being devoted to the role of abstract entities in mathematics. There is speculation on the mechanism whereby objects of one sort or another come to be posited, a process in which the notion of identity plays an important part.