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Pursuit of Truth: Revised Edition Paperback – October 20, 1992
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- Print length126 pages
- LanguageEnglish
- PublisherHarvard University Press
- Publication dateOctober 20, 1992
- Dimensions6 x 0.32 x 9 inches
- ISBN-100674739515
- ISBN-13978-0674739512
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“With his usual wit and aplomb, Quine offers here his latest―though one hopes and expects not his last―word on a variety of intersecting topics that have figured centrally in his life’s work… The book offers not only a lucid and compelling summary of Quine’s views, but also provides invaluable clarifications, reformulations, and substantive updating… Capable of serving as a concise introduction to Quine’s views, this book will also prove invaluable in more sophisticated efforts to understand and appraise his accomplishments.”―Choice
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- Publisher : Harvard University Press
- Publication date : October 20, 1992
- Edition : includes a Preface to the Revised
- Language : English
- Print length : 126 pages
- ISBN-10 : 0674739515
- ISBN-13 : 978-0674739512
- Item Weight : 6.4 ounces
- Dimensions : 6 x 0.32 x 9 inches
- Best Sellers Rank: #1,846,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #1,000 in Philosophy of Logic & Language
- #1,320 in Epistemology Philosophy
- #2,864 in Philosophy Metaphysics
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- Reviewed in the United States on September 28, 2009Format: PaperbackI was immensely pleased with this book. As an expository introduction to Quine's thought it does nicely. For one such as me, one not terribly familiar with Quine's work but a student of philosophy, the language was clear and easy to understand. I suggest that if you have not studied much philosophy, mathematics, or lingusitics the language will not be altogether clear. That is only to say Quine uses technical language often enough. If you are not altogether familiar with the technical language that has sprung up in the analytic tradition, this work will require studying rather than just reading. That being said, Quine does expend some energy in making the book understandable to the novice; with a little work, anyone can follow the exposition.
Once last word before I go. This book is an exposition of Quine's thought. Quine's thought is a system constructed in response to the failures of Logical positivism and other radical empirical movements. His starting point, then, are the problems that linguistic philosophy and empiricism faced. If one is not aware of those problems and schools of thought, some of the exposition will have to be read as both an introduction to those problems and one man's solutions, particularly the chapters on Meaning, Intention and Truth. I think no better author or book can be found to introduce those problems, and the solutions herein are effiecent, to say the very least.
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