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[from 'Word and Object' by Willard Quine, in 1. Philosophy / E. Nature of Metaphysics / 4. Metaphysics as Science ]

Full Idea

Quine has aimed at a naturalistic and empirical world-view, and claims that first-order logic and set theory provide a framework sufficient for the articulation of our knowledge of the world.

Gist of Idea

Quine's naturalistic and empirical view is based entirely on first-order logic and set theory

Source

report of Willard Quine (Word and Object [1960]) by Thomas Mautner - Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy p.465

Book Reference

Mautner,Thomas: 'Dictionary of Philosophy' [Penguin 1997], p.465


A Reaction

Consequently he is fairly eliminativist about meaning and mental states, and does without universals in his metaphysics. An impressively puritanical enterprise, taking Ockham's Razor to the limit, but I find it hard to swallow.