Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical DictionaryHarvard University Press, 1987 - Broj stranica: 249 The appellation “polymath” is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine’s areas of interest are panoramic, as this lively book amply demonstrates. |
Sadržaj
Alphabet | 1 |
Altruism | 3 |
Anomaly | 5 |
Artificial Languages | 8 |
Atoms | 12 |
Beauty | 17 |
Belief | 18 |
Classes versus Properties | 22 |
Latin Pronunciation | 117 |
Lines | 119 |
Longitude and Latitude | 121 |
Marks | 125 |
Mathematosis | 127 |
Meaning | 130 |
Mind versus Body | 132 |
Misling | 134 |
Classes versus Sets | 24 |
Communication | 27 |
Complex Numbers | 29 |
Consonant Clusters | 31 |
Constructivism | 33 |
Copula | 36 |
Creation | 37 |
Decimals and Dimidials | 40 |
Definition | 43 |
Discreteness | 45 |
Etymology | 49 |
Euphemism | 53 |
Excluded Middle | 55 |
Extravagance | 57 |
Fermats Last Theorem | 60 |
Formalism | 63 |
Freedom | 67 |
Free Will | 69 |
Functions | 72 |
Future | 73 |
Gambling | 76 |
Gender | 78 |
Godels Theorem | 82 |
Ideas | 87 |
Identity | 89 |
Idiotisms | 92 |
Impredicativity | 93 |
Infinite Numbers | 96 |
Inflection | 99 |
Information | 103 |
Kinship of Words | 105 |
Knowledge | 108 |
Language Drift | 111 |
Language Reform | 114 |
Natural Numbers | 137 |
Necessity | 139 |
Negation | 142 |
Paradoxes | 145 |
Phonemes | 149 |
Plurals | 152 |
Predicate Logic | 156 |
Prediction | 159 |
Prizes | 165 |
Pronunciation | 166 |
Real Numbers | 170 |
Recursion | 173 |
Redundancy | 177 |
Reference Reification | 180 |
Rhetoric | 183 |
Semantic Switch | 186 |
Senses of Words | 189 |
Singular Terms | 192 |
SpaceTime | 196 |
Syntax | 199 |
Things | 204 |
Tolerance | 206 |
Trinity | 210 |
Truth | 212 |
Type versus Token | 216 |
Units | 220 |
Universal Library | 223 |
Universals | 225 |
Usage and Abusage | 229 |
Use versus Mention | 231 |
Variables | 236 |
Zero | 239 |
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Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary Willard Van Orman Quine Ograničeni pregled - 1987 |
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