Quine's Ideological Debacle

In two papers in the mid-seventies, Quine has discussed an ontological deba-cle, the reduction of ontology to an ontology of pure sets only. This debacle, which weakened Quine’s interest in ontology, is the natural outcome of on-tological relativity, or, more precisely, the proxy-function argument....

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Main Author: Lieven Decock
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina 2004-12-01
Series:Principia: An International Journal of Epistemology
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Online Access:http://www.periodicos.ufsc.br/index.php/principia/article/view/14688/13458