Quiddities
The Belknap Press (Verlag)
978-0-674-74352-6 (ISBN)
The appellation “polymath” is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine’s areas of interest are panoramic, as this lively book amply demonstrates.
Moving from A (alphabet) to Z (zero), Quiddities roams through more than eighty topics, each providing a full measure of piquant thought, wordplay, and wisdom, couched in easy and elegant prose—“Quine at his unbuttoned best,” in Donald Davidson’s words. Philosophy, language, and mathematics are the subjects most fully represented; tides of entries include belief, communication, free will, idiotisms, longitude and latitude, marks, prizes, Latin pronunciation, tolerance, trinity. Even the more technical entries are larded with homely lore, anecdote, and whimsical humor.
Quiddities will be a treat for admirers of Quine and for others who like to think, who care about language, and who enjoy the free play of intellect on topics large and small. For this select audience, it is an ideal book for browsing.
W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.
Alphabet Altruism Anomaly Artificial Languages Atoms Beauty Belief Classes versus Properties Classes versus Sets Communication Complex Numbers Consonant Clusters Constructivism Copula Creation Decimals and Dimidials Definition Discreteness Etymology Euphemism Excluded Middle Extravagance Fermat's Last Theorem Formalism Freedom Free Will Functions Future Gambling Gender Godel's Theorem Ideas Identity Idiotisms Impredicativity Infinite Numbers Inflection Information Kinship of Words Knowledge Language Drift Language Reform Latin Pronunciation Lines Longitude and Latitude Marks Mathematosis Meaning Mind versus Body Misling Natural Numbers Necessity Negation Paradoxes Phonemes Plurals Predicate Logic Prediction Prefixes Prizes Pronunciation Real Numbers Recursion Redundancy Reference, Reification Rhetoric Semantic Switch Senses of Words Singular Terms Space-Time Syntax Things Tolerance Trinity Truth Type versus Token Units Universal Library Universals Usage and Abusage Use versus Mention Variables Zero Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 7.9.2005 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Cambridge, Mass. |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 363 g |
| Themenwelt | Schulbuch / Wörterbuch ► Lexikon / Chroniken |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-674-74352-0 / 0674743520 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-674-74352-6 / 9780674743526 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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