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  • In that case that analycity of Google is Google is a bad reflection on analycity, (one point which, was your countries 'most famous logician, Quine's, point in his attack on the analytic/synthetic distinction).

    Google's Microsoft Moment - Anil Dash 2009

  • Quine's gavagai paradox is one of the easier cases to describe, though I can see how that looks more like mentalese than grammar.

    Universal meaning GamesWithWords 2010

  • Perhaps the best was the witty script to Quine's "Operation Mad Ball" 1957 starring Jack Lemmon as an Army private who uses his wiles to throw a party.

    Blake Edwards, 'Breakfast at Tiffany's' director, dead at 88 Adam Bernstein 2010

  • Sellars 'sophisticated account of the nature and import of theoretical reasoning in natural science, however, enabled him to develop a systematic naturalistic alternative to Quine's influential critique of Carnapian logical empiricism.

    Wilfrid Sellars Rosenberg, Jay 2009

  • In Quine's case it is less clear that the endorsement signaling function is basic.

    Him 2009

  • The book concludes with a critique of Quine's narrow conception of empirical experience and also a critique of Donald Davidson's views on belief as inherently veridical, in which Davidson plays the role of the pure coherentist.

    Backing Into an Evidentiary Standard for ID 2007

  • Perhaps in 2010, you'll pit your Lobster-Yaweh against Quine's Gavagai in an animism cage match.

    This Just In: I Bid You "Aduh" Until 2010 BikeSnobNYC 2009

  • Thus, if we accept Quine's general picture of knowledge, it becomes quite difficult to disentangle normative from descriptive issues, or questions about the psychology of human belief revision from questions about the justifiability or rational defensibility of such revisions.

    Underdetermination of Scientific Theory Stanford, Kyle 2009

  • (Here, it may be helpful to compare the current argument to Quine's (1953b) famous argument about Giorgione.) 4.

    Material Constitution Wasserman, Ryan 2009

  • Any challenge to the definition of ˜ontological commitment™ provided by Quine's Criterion therefore appears irrelevant to the version of the Fregean argument developed above.

    Platonism in the Philosophy of Mathematics Linnebo, Øystein 2009

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