Word and object

Willard Van Orman Quine First published 1960

About this book

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)

Subjects

  • filosofi a
  • filosofía
  • langage et langues
  • language and languages
  • language and languages, philosophy
  • language and languages--philosophy
  • languages
  • lenguas
  • lo gica simbo lica y matema tica
  • lógica simbólica y matemática
  • logic, symbolic and mathematical
  • logique symbolique et mathe matique
  • logique symbolique et mathématique
  • philosophie
  • philosophy
  • semantics (philosophy)
  • se mantique (philosophie)
  • sémantique (philosophie)
  • symbolic and mathematical logic