Ideas of W Quine / J Ullian, by Theme

[American, fl. 1970, Quine a professor at Harvard University.]

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8460	Philosophers have given precise senses to deduction, probability, computability etc
	Full Idea: Successful explications (giving a precise sense to a term) have been found for the concepts of deduction, probability and computability, to name just three.
	From: W Quine / J Ullian (The Web of Belief [1970], 65), quoted by Alex Orenstein - W.V. Quine Ch.3
	A reaction: Quine also cites the concept of an 'ordered pair'. Orenstein adds Tarski's definition of truth, Russell's definite descriptions, and the explication of existence in terms of quantifications. Cf. Idea 2958.