Word and Object

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

Word and Object is a 1960 work by the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands upon the line of thought of his earlier writings in From a Logical Point of View (1953), and reformulates some of his earlier arguments, such as his attack in "Two Dogmas of Empiricism" on the analytic–synthetic distinction.[1] The thought experiment of radical translation and the accompanying notion of indeterminacy of translation are original to Word and Object, which is Quine's most famous book.[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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