Quinian

It is impossible in this space to exhibit the full Quinian magic, the magnificent command of reasoning, pace, rhetoric and humor--how in two pages he considers the traditional arguments justifying altruism as self-interest and finds them wanting.

Harvard University Press Publicity Blog : 2008

It is impossible in this space to exhibit the full Quinian magic, the magnificent command of reasoning, pace, rhetoric and humor--how in two pages he considers the traditional arguments justifying altruism as self-interest and finds them wanting.

W. V. Quine remembered 2008

In his Metaphysics of Meaning, Jerrold Katz exposed an essentially Bolzanian theory showing how to respond to Wittgensteinian and Quinian arguments: the meanings constitute a universal field from which every language selects its own meanings, not necessarily the same for all languages.

Bolzano's Logic Sebestik, Jan 2007

Since it is well known that there are convincing arguments for the ineliminability of values in the social sciences, those who have taken on board Quinian holisms, Kuhnian paradigms, or Foucauldian espistemes, may suppose that positivism should be rejected a priori, as promising something that no theory can deliver.

Legal Positivism Green, Leslie 2003

Eadrik (lute), Rueby (Harp), Keado (lute) Back: Eadlin (Theorbo) Also starring Quinian!

Music, Ringtones and Downloads admin 2010

As I read JS, he seems to accept Paltinga’s argument on the one hand but also want to maintain that darwinism and, say, a Quinian theory of knowledge are distinct epistemologically (the former is clearly “truer” than the latter).

Matthew Yglesias » Endgame 2010