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Single Idea 7330
[filed under theme 19. Language / F. Communication / 6. Interpreting Language / c. Principle of charity
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Full Idea
Quine takes to the principle of charity to apply only to the translation of the logical constants.
Gist of Idea
The principle of charity only applies to the logical constants
Source
report of Willard Quine (works [1961]) by Alexander Miller - Philosophy of Language 8.7
Book Ref
Miller,Alexander: 'Philosophy of Language' [UCL Press 1998], p.272
A Reaction
Given how weird some people's view of the world seems to be, this very cautious approach has an interesting rival appeal to Davidson't much more charitable view, that people mostly speak truth. It depends whether you are discussing lunch or the gods.
The
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from 'works'
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13736
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Quinean metaphysics just lists the beings, which is a domain with no internal structure
[Schaffer,J on Quine]
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3302
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Set theory is full of Platonist metaphysics, so Quine aimed to keep it separate from logic
[Quine, by Benardete,JA]
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10211
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Quine wants V = L for a cleaner theory, despite the scepticism of most theorists
[Quine, by Shapiro]
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3336
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Two things can never entail three things
[Quine, by Benardete,JA]
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8453
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If we had to name objects to make existence claims, we couldn't discuss all the real numbers
[Quine]
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10311
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No sense can be made of quantification into opaque contexts
[Quine, by Hale]
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10538
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Finite quantification can be eliminated in favour of disjunction and conjunction
[Quine, by Dummett]
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10793
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Quine thought substitutional quantification confused use and mention, but then saw its nominalist appeal
[Quine, by Marcus (Barcan)]
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3751
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Universals are acceptable if they are needed to make an accepted theory true
[Quine, by Jacquette]
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8466
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For Quine, intuitionist ontology is inadequate for classical mathematics
[Quine, by Orenstein]
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8467
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Intuitionists only admit numbers properly constructed, but classical maths covers all reals in a 'limit'
[Quine, by Orenstein]
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15782
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Quine wants identity and individuation-conditions for possibilia
[Quine, by Lycan]
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10667
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A logically perfect language could express all truths, so all truths must be logically expressible
[Quine, by Hossack]
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3325
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For Quine everything exists theoretically, as reference, predication and quantification
[Quine, by Benardete,JA]
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16021
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Quine says we can expand predicates easily (ideology), but not names (ontology)
[Quine, by Noonan]
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8534
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Quine says the predicate of a true statement has no ontological implications
[Quine, by Armstrong]
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10295
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Quine suggests that properties can be replaced with extensional entities like sets
[Quine, by Shapiro]
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3322
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Quine says that if second-order logic is to quantify over properties, that can be done in first-order predicate logic
[Quine, by Benardete,JA]
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6078
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Quine brought classes into semantics to get rid of properties
[Quine, by McGinn]
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8479
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Don't analyse 'red is a colour' as involving properties. Say 'all red things are coloured things'
[Quine, by Orenstein]
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15783
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Definite descriptions can't unambiguously pick out an object which doesn't exist
[Lycan on Quine]
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2796
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For Quine the only way to know a necessity is empirically
[Quine, by Dancy,J]
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8450
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Quine's empiricism is based on whole theoretical systems, not on single mental events
[Quine, by Orenstein]
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3868
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To proclaim cultural relativism is to thereby rise above it
[Quine, by Newton-Smith]
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4713
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For Quine, theories are instruments used to make predictions about observations
[Quine, by O'Grady]
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4712
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Quine says there is no matter of fact about reference - it is 'inscrutable'
[Quine, by O'Grady]
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7330
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The principle of charity only applies to the logical constants
[Quine, by Miller,A]
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17862
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Essence gives an illusion of understanding
[Quine, by Almog]
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7970
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Quine is committed to sets, but is more a Class Nominalist than a Platonist
[Quine, by Macdonald,C]
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