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W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000) was a prominent 20th century analytic philosopher.

W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000) was a prominent 20th century analytic philosopher, best known for his arguments against logical empiricism and for his naturalistic approach to philosophy.

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When Quine is criticizing the notion of analyticity what exactly is his criterion?

Quine criticizes analyticity for presupposing another notion, that of synonymy, which for Quine either must be explained in terms of analyticity or synonymy itself. But what exactly does Quine think needs to be clarified as regards to analyticity…
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Quine "Ontological Relativity"

I am completely new to Quine's theories and thank you for your patience in answering my novice questions. In his paper "Ontological Relativity", Quine says: Consider the case of a thoughtful protosyntactician. He has a formalized system of…
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Quine on philosophy and science

In this interview with Bryan Magee in 1978, W. V. O. Quine mentions that some philosophers believed that (1) philosophy is separate from science (2) philosophy provided a basis on which to build science: I think of philosophy as concerned with our…
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Quine's cordate/renate argument and specifying the domain of discourse

Can the specifications of domain of applicability be part of analytic statements? The problem involves my reading of Quine's Two Dogmas, and trying to elaborate the "creatures with hearts" and "creatures with kidneys" argument. I'm finding that in…
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Quinean ontological commitment and properties

Take the following sentence: Some students are brilliant. According to Quine, is this sentence ontologically committed to things students and to the property brilliance or being brilliant? From what I understand, Quine doesn't want to commit to…
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Is Quine begging the question against the traditional epistemologist?

Quine's naturalistic holism is marked by the idea that our methodology should be concerned with empirical data as understood by modern science in conjunction with the idea that every theory is underdetermined by the data it espouses to…
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