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  • adjective Of or relating to Willard Van Orman Quine, an American philosopher.

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Quine +‎ -an

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  • (Quine 1961), it was gradually replaced by the new-and-improved post-Quinean gospel truth that there is no such thing as an acceptable analytic-synthetic distinction.

    Kant's Theory of Judgment Hanna, Robert 2009

  • Put in slightly different terms: isotropic and Quinean processes are global rather than local, and since globality rules out encapsulation, isotropy and Quineanness rule out encapsulation.

    Modularity of Mind Robbins, Philip 2009

  • It may be viewed as the problem of meeting the Quinean demand for clear identity conditions.

    Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009

  • In ˜Reply to Quine on Events™ [1985b] he abandons this criterion in favour of the Quinean suggestion that events are identical if and only if they occupy exactly the same location in space and time.

    Donald Davidson Malpas, Jeff 2009

  • Plantinga's version of actualist representationism faces its own version of the Quinean challenge, namely, the problem of specifying the individual essences which are supposed to replace non-actual possible objects.

    Possible Objects Yagisawa, Takashi 2009

  • Mary Hesse suggests that Quinean underdetermination showed why certain

    Underdetermination of Scientific Theory Stanford, Kyle 2009

  • We will call this argument the singular term argument, although one might just as well call it the sucker-punch-on-the-Quinean-nominalist argument, for as we will see, the strategy is to accept the above criterion of ontological commitment and turn it against the Quinean nominalist.

    Platonism in Metaphysics Balaguer, Mark 2009

  • Hasn't anyone on the other side read Russell's classic intro text, The Problems of Philosophy, or followed the ongoing post-Wittgenstein and post-Quinean debates about foundationalism, or read a serious work dealing with the notion of scientific realism, anything by Putnam, or Rorty, or Plantinga on epistemology?

    Carry-Over Thread 2007

  • Advocates of the One Over Many would say that their view is superior to Quinean nominalism because they can provide an explanation of the fact in question.

    Platonism in Metaphysics Balaguer, Mark 2009

  • The Quinean approach identifies the logical constants as the expressions that play a privileged, “structural” role in a systematic grammatical theory for a language.

    Logical Constants MacFarlane, John 2009

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