This familiar desk manifests its presence by resisting my pressures and by deflecting light to my eyes.
An edition of Word and object
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Word and object
by Willard Van Orman Quine
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Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. This book examines the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. Topics covered include the difficulties involved in translation, the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, the semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and the reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. Conclusions reached include rejecting the notion of a language-transcendent "sentence-meaning", and meaningful studies in the semantics of reference can only be directed toward substantially the same language in which they are conducted. (From publisher's copy)
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Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Philosophy, Languages, Semantics (Philosophy), Language and languages, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical, Lenguas, Langage et langues, Filosofi a, Lo gica simbo lica y matema tica, Se mantique (Philosophie), Logique symbolique et mathe matique, Philosophie, Logique symbolique et mathématique, Sémantique (Philosophie), Language and languages, philosophy, Language and languages--philosophy, Lógica simbólica y matemática, Filosofía| Edition | Availability |
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Word and Object (Studies in Communication)
March 15, 1964, The MIT Press
Paperback
in English
0262670011 9780262670012
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Word and object
1960, M.I.T.Press, Technology Press of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
in English
0262170019 9780262170017
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