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Champagne Drinking Teetotaler
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Quine's prose is a little bit too exciting for writing in theoretical philosophy. why didn't he write dry, dull and boring, just like all the rest of the respectable philosophers?
— May 22, 2025 08:29PM
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Champagne Drinking Teetotaler
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I really don't get how there can be indeterminacy of translation for Quine. His theory states the the meaning of an expression is it's empirical meaning and if two expressions correlate with the same dispositions to (verbal) behaviour, they are alike in meaning, for they have the same empirical meaning.
Now indeterminacy of a sentence S1 would require something like S2 and S3 being equally good translations of it,...
— May 18, 2025 11:51AM
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Now indeterminacy of a sentence S1 would require something like S2 and S3 being equally good translations of it,...
Champagne Drinking Teetotaler
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First reading of this book. Admittedly never read it before 😅
— May 01, 2025 11:04PM
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Crito
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Quietly moving how at this point Quine has been citing points "indebted to Davidson" every 5 pages or so. Likewise considering Davidson dedicated his later Inquiries Into Truth and Interpretation to Quine "without whom not".
— Feb 15, 2025 10:09PM
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Larry
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Wonderful preface by Follesdal; very moving testimony of the last months of Quines life
— May 01, 2024 04:07AM
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