Word and Object

Word and Object
Cover of the first edition
AuthorWillard Van Orman Quine
LanguageEnglish
SubjectsEpistemology, language
PublisherMIT Press
Publication date
1960
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (Hardcover and Paperback)
Pages294
ISBN0-262-67001-1

Word and Object, philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine's most famous work, expands on ideas in From a Logical Point of View (1953) and reformulates earlier arguments like his attack on the analytic–synthetic distinction from "Two Dogmas of Empiricism".[1] It introduces the thought experiment of radical translation and the related concept of indeterminacy of translation.[2]

  1. ^ Quine, Willard Van Orman (1985). The Time of My Life: An Autobiography. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. p. 392. ISBN 978-0262670043.
  2. ^ Gibson, Roger F. (1999). Audi, Robert (ed.). The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. pp. 767–768. ISBN 0-521-63722-8.

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