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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essay collection
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W.V.O. Quine
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Willard Van Orman Quine → |
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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United States
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Word and Object
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philosophy
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metaphysics
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philosophy of language → philosophy of logic → philosophy of science → |
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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 → Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (introduction) → Speaking of Objects → 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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English
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epistemology
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indeterminacy of translation → meaning → ontological relativity → ontology → philosophy of language → reference → |
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indeterminacy of translation
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inscrutability of reference → naturalized epistemology → ontological relativity → |
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Willard Van Orman Quine bibliography
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analytic philosophy
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1969
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Columbia University Press
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Ontological Relativity and Other Essays
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Ontological Relativity and Other Essays ("Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (introduction)") → |
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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