Trading Ontology for Ideology: The Interplay of Logic, Set Theory and Semantics in Quine's Philosophy (Synthese Library) [Hardcover]

L. Decock (Author)

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Publication Date: September 30, 2002 | Series: Synthese Library (Book 313)

Willard Van Orman Quine (1908-2000) was probably the most influential American philosopher of the twentieth century. In Trading Ontology for Ideology Lieven Decock offers an insightful analysis of the development of Quine's ontological views from his first texts in the early thirties onwards. The importance of Quine's work in logic and set theory for his ontology is highlighted. Decock argues that the tenet of extensionalism is at least as important as naturalism, and assesses the relation between the two. The other focus of the work is the relation between ontology, i.e. what there is, and ideology, i.e. what can be expressed by means of words. Decock shows that the interplay between ontology and ideology is far more complicated and interesting than has generally been assumed.

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Hardcover: 288 pages
Publisher: Springer; 1 edition (September 30, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1402008651
ISBN-13: 978-1402008658
Product Dimensions: 9.9 x 6.4 x 0.9 inches
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Quine's criterion of ontological commitment has played a major role in analytic philosophy in the 20th century. Read the first page

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proxy function argument, ideological debacle, predicate functor logic, robust predicates, perceptual ontology, regimented theories, trading ontology for ideology, predicative set theory, ontological apparatus, constructive nominalism, impure numbers, pure set theory, global stimuli, stratified formula, objectual quantification, substitutional quantification, objectual reading, logical regimentation, comprehension axiom, observation categoricals, proxy functions, naturalised epistemology, ultimate classes, predicate functors, higher infinities

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Principia Mathematica, The Logic of Sequences, System of Logistic, Mount Rainier, Nelson Goodman, The Logical Syntax of Language, Vienna Circle, Goldbach's Conjecture, Peter Geach

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Word and Object (Studies in Communication) by Willard Van Orman Quine on 36 pages
Mathematical logic by W. V Quine on 18 pages
The Roots of Reference (Paul Carus Lectures) by Willard V. Quine on 13 pages
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition by W. V. Quine on 7 pages
Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Philosophy of Science by Peter A. French on 6 pages

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