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Word and Object

Paperback • 2013 • English

Word and Object

By Willard Van Orman Quine

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About the book

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 prec...Show more

Philosophy of language
Sociolinguistics
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ISBN

9780262518314

Publisher

MIT Press

Published year

2013

Language

English

Original title

Word and Object

Format

Paperback

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