Quine

The Slingshot Argument: Challenging Truth and Reference

The slingshot argument posits that all true statements refer to the same single reality. This challenges the correspondence theory of…

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Plato’s Beard: Quine’s Metaphor for Non-Existent Entities

Plato's beard, a metaphor coined by W.V.O. Quine, explores the philosophical challenge of how we talk about and attribute properties…

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New Foundations

Quine's New Foundations is a set theory designed to bypass paradoxes of naive set theory. It uses a unique axiom…

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The Indispensability Argument in Philosophy of Mathematics

This argument posits that if mathematical entities are essential for our most successful scientific theories, we should accept their existence.…

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Indeterminacy of Translation

Quine's theory posits that empirical evidence alone cannot establish a single, correct translation between languages. Multiple translations are often equally…

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