Pursuit of Truth Revised Edition

Name: Pursuit of Truth Revised Edition
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ISBN: 9780674739512

ISBN-10: 0674739515

ISBN-13: 9780674739512

Edition: 2nd 1992 (Revised)

Authors: Willard Van Orman Quine

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In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: "In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge?' The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion. Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and…

Book details

List price: $37.00
Edition: 2nd
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 10/20/1992
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 126
Size: 5.47" wide x 8.50" long x 0.47" tall
Weight: 0.396
Language: English




Evidence



Stimulation and prediction



Observation sentences



Theory-laden?



Observation categoricals



Test and refutation



Holism



Empirical content



Norms and aims



Reference



Bodies



Values of variables



Utility of reification



Indifference of ontology



Ontology defused



Meaning



The field linguist's entering wedge



Stimulation again



To each his own



Translation resumed



Indeterminacy of translation



Syntax



Indeterminacy of reference



Whither meanings?



Domestic meaning



Lexicography



Intension



Perception and observation sentences



Perception extended



Perception of things



Belief and perception



Propositional attitudes



Anomalous monism



Modalities



A mentalistic heritage



Truth



Vehicles of truth



Truth as disquotation



Paradox



Tarski's construction



Paradox skirted



Interlocked hierarchies



Excluded middle



Truth versus warranted belief



Truth in mathematics



Equivalent theories



Irresoluble rivalry



Two indeterminacies


References


Credits


Index