Quine's Double Standard: Undermining the Indispensability Argument via the Indeterminacy of Reference
Quine has famously put forward the indispensability argument to force belief in the existence of mathematical objects (such as classes) due to their indispensability to our best theories of the world (Quine 1960). Quine has also advocated the indeterminacy of reference argument, according to which r...
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Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
2003-12-01
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Series: | Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology |
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Online Access: | http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/14734/13475 |