Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
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Ontological Relativity and Other Essays is a collection of influential philosophical papers by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on ontology, meaning, and the indeterminacy of translation.
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| Ontological Relativity | 3 |
| Ontological Relativity and Other Essays canonical | 2 |
| Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (introduction) | 1 |
| “Ontological Relativity and Other Essays” | 1 |
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Target entity: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays Context triple: [Willard Van Orman Quine, notableWork, Ontological Relativity and Other Essays]
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Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
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Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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The Relativity of Wrong
The Relativity of Wrong is an essay by Isaac Asimov that explains how scientific ideas become progressively less wrong over time, arguing that errors in science are matters of degree rather than absolute falsehood.
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The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener is a collection of essays in which Martin Gardner explores and defends his views on philosophy, religion, and rational inquiry with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical inquiry.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays Target entity description: Ontological Relativity and Other Essays is a collection of influential philosophical papers by W.V.O. Quine that develops his views on ontology, meaning, and the indeterminacy of translation.
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A.
Language, Truth and Logic
Language, Truth and Logic is A.J. Ayer’s influential 1936 philosophical work that popularized logical positivism in the English-speaking world by arguing that meaningful statements are either empirically verifiable or tautological.
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B.
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics
Prolegomena to Any Future Metaphysics is a foundational philosophical work by Immanuel Kant that concisely outlines and defends the key ideas of his critical philosophy, especially those developed more fully in the Critique of Pure Reason.
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C.
The Relativity of Wrong
The Relativity of Wrong is an essay by Isaac Asimov that explains how scientific ideas become progressively less wrong over time, arguing that errors in science are matters of degree rather than absolute falsehood.
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D.
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener
The Whys of a Philosophical Scrivener is a collection of essays in which Martin Gardner explores and defends his views on philosophy, religion, and rational inquiry with his characteristic clarity and wit.
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E.
Philosophical Investigations
Philosophical Investigations is a highly influential 20th-century work of philosophy that reshaped analytic philosophy through its exploration of language, meaning, and the limits of philosophical inquiry.
- F. None of above. chosen
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Willard Van Orman Quine ⓘ |
| contributor | Willard Van Orman Quine ⓘ |
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| genre | philosophy ⓘ |
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metaphysics
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philosophy of language ⓘ philosophy of logic ⓘ philosophy of science ⓘ |
| hasPart |
Epistemology Naturalized
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Existence and Quantification ⓘ Grades of Theoreticity ⓘ Identity, Ostension, and Hypostasis ⓘ Linguistics and Philosophy ⓘ Natural Kinds ⓘ Ontological Reduction and the World of Numbers ⓘ Ontological Relativity and Other Essays self-linksurface differs ⓘ
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Ontological Relativity
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays self-linksurface differs ⓘ
surface form:
Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (introduction)
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Stimulus and Meaning
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behavioral semantics
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naturalism in epistemology ⓘ ontological commitment ⓘ ontological relativity of objects to conceptual schemes ⓘ radical translation ⓘ rejection of the analytic–synthetic distinction ⓘ theory-ladenness of observation ⓘ |
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behaviorism
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logical empiricism ⓘ set theory ⓘ |
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| mainSubject |
epistemology
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indeterminacy of translation ⓘ meaning ⓘ ontological relativity ⓘ ontology ⓘ philosophy of language ⓘ reference ⓘ |
| notableIdea |
indeterminacy of translation
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inscrutability of reference ⓘ naturalized epistemology ⓘ ontological relativity ⓘ |
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From a Logical Point of View
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Willard Van Orman Quine bibliography
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| philosophicalTradition | analytic philosophy ⓘ |
| publicationYear | 1969 ⓘ |
| publisher | Columbia University Press ⓘ |
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