- Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Philosophy, Languages, Semantics (Philosophy)
Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. This book examines the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference.
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- sparerichly built
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- Author
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- First published
- 1960
- Pages
- 294
- Publisher
- M.I.T.Press, M. I. T. Press, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Wiley; Chapman & Hall
- Editions
- 9
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780262670012
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“This familiar desk manifests its presence by resisting my pressures and by deflecting light to my eyes.”
American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition
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