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Word and Object (Paperback, New Edition)
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Word and Object (Paperback, New Edition)
Series: The MIT Press
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A new edition of Quine's most important work. Willard Van Orman
Quine begins this influential work by declaring, "Language is a
social art. In acquiring it we have to depend entirely on
intersubjectively available cues as to what to say and when." As
Patricia Smith Churchland notes in her foreword to this new
edition, with Word and Object Quine challenged the tradition of
conceptual analysis as a way of advancing knowledge. The book
signaled twentieth-century philosophy's turn away from metaphysics
and what Churchland calls the "phony precision" of conceptual
analysis. In the course of his discussion of meaning and the
linguistic mechanisms of objective reference, Quine considers the
indeterminacy of translation, brings to light the anomalies and
conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus,
clarifies semantic problems connected with the imputation of
existence, and marshals reasons for admitting or repudiating each
of various categories of supposed objects. In addition to
Churchland's foreword, this edition offers a new preface by Quine's
student and colleague Dagfinn Follesdal that describes the
never-realized plans for a second edition of Word and Object, in
which Quine would offer a more unified treatment of the public
nature of meaning, modalities, and propositional attitudes.
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