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The appellation "polymath" is often lightly bestowed, but it can be applied with confidence to the celebrated philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. Quine's areas of interest are panoramic, as this lively book amply demonstrates. Moving from A (alphabet) to Z (zero), Quiddities roams through more than eighty topics, each providing a full measure of piquant thought, wordplay, and wisdom, couched in easy and elegant prose--"Quine at his unbuttoned best," in Donald Davidson's words. Philosophy, langu
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- Author
- Quine, Willard Van Orman
- Publisher
- Belknap Press: An Imprint of Harvard University Press
- Published
- 1987
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780674042438
- Category
- philosophy
- Subjects
- Physics, Science, Philosophy
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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