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Pursuit of Truth: Revised Edition by Quine, Willard Van Orman, Willard Van Orman Quine, W. V Quine, W.V. Quine is a philosophy book available to read on EtoBox.

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In Pursuit of Truth W. V. Quine gives us his latest word on issues to which he has devoted many years. As he says in the preface: \"In these pages I have undertaken to update, sum up, and clarify my variously intersecting views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge?' The pursuit of truth is a quest that links observation, theory, and the world. Various faulty efforts to forge such links have led to much intellectual confusion. Quine's efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega ofthe scientific enterprise. Notions like \"idea\" and \"meaning\" are vague, but a sentence-now there's something you can sink your teeth into. Starting thus with sentences, Quine sketches an epistemological setting for the pursuit of truth. He proceeds to show how reification and reference contribute to the elaborate structure that can indeed relate science to its sensory evidence.In this book Quine both summarizes and moves ahead. Rich, lively chapters dissect his major concerns-evidence, re

Who reads Pursuit of Truth: Revised Edition?

Author

Quine, Willard Van Orman, Willard Van Orman Quine, W. V Quine, W.V. Quine

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1992

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674739512

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Fiction, Physics, Science

Rating

3.95 / 5 (87 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14