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Single Idea 9471

[catalogued under 19. Language / A. Nature of Meaning / 10. Denial of Meanings]

Full Idea

Intensions are creatures of darkness and I shall rejoice with the reader when they are exorcised.

Gist of Idea

Intensions are creatures of darkness which should be exorcised

Source

Willard Quine (Quantifiers and Propositional Attitudes [1955], §II)

Book Reference

Quine,Willard: 'Ways of Paradox and other essays' [Harvard 1976], p.188


A Reaction

Quine seems to be in a diminshing minority with this view. For 'intensions' read 'meanings', presumably.