Frasi di Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine è stato un filosofo e logico statunitense.

Quine ha ricoperto la cattedra Edgar Pierce di filosofia della Harvard University dal 1956 al 2000. Chiamato da taluni "il filosofo del filosofo", è il modello quintessenziale del filosofo analitico. Tra le sue maggiori opere Two Dogmas of Empiricism , influente attacco alla concezione dei positivisti logici sulle proposizioni analitiche e sintetiche e Parola e oggetto . Wikipedia  

✵ 25. Giugno 1908 – 25. Dicembre 2000
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Willard Van Orman Quine frasi celebri

“La vita è ciò che gli ultimi di noi fanno provare alla maggior parte di noi, che gli ultimi sono la maggioranza.”

Willard Van Orman Quine

intervista all'Harvard Magazine, in Reuben Hersh, Cos'è davvero la matematica – Baldini Castoldi Dalai, traduzione di Rosalba Giomi

“La cultura dei nostri padri è una stoffa di enunciati. Nelle nostre mani essa si evolve e muta […]. È una cultura grigia, nera di fatti e bianca di convenzioni. Ma non ho trovato alcuna ragione sostanziale per concludere che vi siano in essa fili del tutto neri e altri del tutto bianchi.”

Willard Van Orman Quine

in risposta all'amico e maestro Rudolf Carnap; citato in Gloria Origgi, La stoffa del reale è intessuta di fatti convenzioni http://lgxserver.uniba.it/lei/rassegna/001231a.htm, Il Sole 24 ore

“Le nostre proposizioni sul mondo esterno si sottopongono al tribunale dell'esperienza sensibile non individualmente ma solo come insieme solidale”

Willard Van Orman Quine

Two dogmas of empiricism, Philosophical Review, 1951, poi in From a Logical Point of View, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University press, 1953, 2a ed. 1961, tr. it. Due dogmi dell'empirismo, in Il problema del significato, Roma, Ubaldini, 1966

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Willard Van Orman Quine: Frasi in inglese

“We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary (1987), p. 231
1980s and later
Contesto: We cannot stem linguistic change, but we can drag our feet. If each of us were to defy Alexander Pope and be the last to lay the old aside, it might not be a better world, but it would be a lovelier language.

“Possibly, but my concern is that there not be more things in my philosophy than are in heaven and earth.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Response to being quoted William Shakespeare's statement from Hamlet: "There are more things in heaven and earth… than are dreamt of in your philosophy." As quoted in ‪When God is Gone Everything Is Holy: The Making Of A Religious Naturalist‬ (2008) by ‪Chet Raymo‬
1980s and later

“Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it.”

Willard van Orman Quine Two Dogmas of Empiricism

"Two Dogmas of Empiricism", p. 26
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)
Contesto: Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

“Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praiseworthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.”

Willard van Orman Quine

"Natural Kinds", in Ontological Relativity and Other Essays (1969), p. 126; originally written for a festschrift for Carl Gustav Hempel, this appears in a context explaining why induction tends to work in practice, despite theoretical objections. The hyphen in "praise-worthy" is ambiguous, since it falls on a line break in the source.
1960s

“Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.”

Willard van Orman Quine

"On What There Is", p. 4. a humorous comment on the idea "unactualized possible".
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)

“"Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Quine's paradox, in "The Ways of Paradox" in "The Ways of Paradox and other Essays" (1976)
1970s

“It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Theories and Things, Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press. 1981
1980s and later

“A fancifully fancyless medium of unvarnished news.”

Willard van Orman Quine libro Word and Object

A mocking title for the 'protocol language' imagined by some of the logical positivists, in "Word and Object (1960), section 1
1960s

“The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.”

Willard van Orman Quine

"Two dogmas of Empiricism", p. 26
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)

“Set theory in sheep's clothing.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Referring to Second-order logic, in Philosophy of Logic (1970)
1970s

“Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.”

Willard van Orman Quine Two Dogmas of Empiricism

"Two Dogmas of Empiricism", p. 26
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)

“Life is agid. Life is fulgid. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Quine's response in 1988 when asked his philosophy of life. (He invented the word "agid".) It makes up the entire Chapter 54 in Quine in Dialogue (2008).
1980s and later

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