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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
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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
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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!
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... Of comprehension in ostensive learning of general terms *before* hypostasis. Hypostasis has to be prior, otherwise we could only use enumeration of elements to form the relevant classes and this would never get us to continuous or even discontinuous (in Quine's sense) abstract objects. Substances persist through time and there is continuity even discontinuously existing objects. The whole is often greater than the sum of its parts, especially for primary substances. I hope that the Aristotelean objection I have in mind has already been formulated by some smart guy, for Aristotle already said what problems there would be for Quine's 4-dimensional ontology, not much work has to be done in pointing them out.
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