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Quine undoubtedly deserves being mentioned as a philosopher in the same breath as Aristotle or Plato and in the fourth essay here, he
invokes Heraclitus and the language of hypostasis, but I wish he would have dealt as meticulously with the Presocratics and with especially the problems posed by the Eleatics as Plato did in the Theaetetus or Aristotle in his Physics. I doubt that we can use a principle of comprehensi

I remember how I read three of these essays in my first semester as an undergraduate. I was totally stunned by Quine's philosophy and although back then already some aspects of it seemed to be unacceptable to me or at least begging the question, I have been reading these and other essays over and over again. But now is the first time for me to read this collection from cover to cover. One of my favourite authors!