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Logic and the Structure of the Web of Belief

Journal for the History of Analytical Philosophy, 2015
In this paper, I examine Quine's views on the epistemology of logic. According to Quine's influential holistic account, logic is central in the “web of belief” that comprises our overall theory of the world.
Matthew Carlson
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Powers That Be: An Adventure in Metaphysics

Philosophical Investigations, Volume 49, Issue 4, Page 343-348, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This paper is an investigation into the increasingly popular trend amongst philosophers on the metaphysics of powers, exemplified by the statement: ‘To be real is to possess a power to affect (or to be affected by) other things’. First, I briefly trace the history of this idea (from the Eleatic dialectic of ancient times to present day quantum
David Rozema
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The metaphysical dimension of the inscrutability thesis

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
The main purpose of this paper is to show how the thesis of the inscrutability of reference fits in Willard Van Orman Quine’s semantic and to establish how it is logically related to some other important theses from Quine.
Sofia Inês Albornoz Stein
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Teoría de la evidencia y holismo moderado en W. V.O. Quine

Praxis Filosófica, 1999
Este artículo presenta lo que puede considerarse como la teoría de la evidencia sensorial relativa a las teorías empíricas, que el filósofo estadounidense W.V.O Quine expuso en el contexto filosófico de una epistemología naturalizada.
Germán Guerrero Pino
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Quine on Identity

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2003
In a first section, we discuss Quine’s claim according to which identity is a logical notion. We point out that Quine mixes up various types of identities: trivial (or diagonal) identity, Leibniz identity, etc.; and this leads him to commit several mistakes.
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Theories of truth and theories of meaning: a discussion of semantic skepticism and its possible solutions based on Quine, Davidson, and Dummett's work

Logos & Culturas
Quine's semantic skepticism asserts that two or more hypotheses about the meaning of p that are equally consistent with behavioral facts do not guarantee the same theoretical paradigm of p's meaning.
Lucas Vollet
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Quine's Double Standard: Undermining the Indispensability Argument via the Indeterminacy of Reference

Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology, 2003
Quine has famously put forward the indispensability argument to force belief in the existence of mathematical objects (such as classes) due to their indispensability to our best theories of the world (Quine 1960).
Otávio Bueno
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The concept of identity in naturalism

Filosofia Unisinos, 2021
Naturalism in philosophy is characterized by the assumption that nature is the whole of reality. Thus, the naturalist must try to show how concepts considered irreducible and trans-natural by traditional transcendental philosophy can be reduced to ...
Guido Imaguire
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Themes from Wittgenstein and Quine

The volume contains new essays on Wittgenstein and on Quine. Six essays discuss crucial aspects of Wittgenstein's philosophy of mathematics: Wittgenstein's ontological quietism in relation to the realism vs.
Schlegel, Anne-Katrin., Demont, Florian., Dolby, David., Büttner, Kai., Greimann, Dirk.   +4 more
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Historical background

, 1990
Ponència del professor Willard V. Quine en el marc del seminari 'From stimulus to science' dedicat al seu pensament, presentat pel professor Ferrater Mora766.mp4 766 ...
Ferrater Mora, Josep, Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman)   +1 more
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