From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition

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How can we talk about Pegasus? To what does the word 'Pegasus' refer? If our answer is, 'Something', then we seem to believe in mystical entities; if our answer is, 'nothing', then we seem to talk about nothing and what sense can be made of this? Certainly when we said that Pegasus was a mythological winged horse we make sense, and moreover we speak the truth! If we speak the truth, this must be truth about something. So we cannot be speaking of nothing.

a b Putnam, H. Mathematics, Matter and Method. Philosophical Papers, vol. 1. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1975. 2nd. ed., 1985. It is Thorne's intention to write a sequel to this paper, provisionally under the title ‘Adverbs and Interpretive Semantics’. At one point we had thought of attempting to publish the two papers together, perhaps in a jointly authored monograph. However, in the hope of stimulating discussion which may prove useful for another related project we have agreed that my paper should be submitted for earlier publication. Quine has had numerous influences on contemporary metaphysics. He coined the term " abstract object". [27] He also coined the term " Plato's beard" to refer to the problem of empty names.Rudolf Fara (host), In conversation: W. V. Quine (7 videocassettes), Philosophy International, Centre for Philosophy of the Natural and Social Sciences, London School of Economics, 1994.

Quine, W. V. (1961). From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays, Second Revised Edition. Harper torchbooks. Harvard University Press. p.22. ISBN 978-0-674-32351-3. Concepts in an unconceptualized reality are not more than language. Their purpose is pragmatic. The ultimate duty of language, science and philosophy is efficacy in communication and prediction. Inwagen, Peter van (2004). "A Theory of Properties". Oxford Studies in Metaphysics, Volume 1. Clarendon Press. pp.107–138.Montague, R. (1970) ‘English as a Formal Language’, in B. Visentini et al., Linguaggi Nella Societa e Nella Tecnica, Edizioni di Communita, Milan. Shao M, Yang H (2012) Two kinds of multi-level formal concepts and its application for sets approximations. Int J Mach Learn Cybern. doi: 10.1007/s13042-012-0128-2 The Pantheon of Skeptics". CSI. Committee for Skeptical Inquiry. Archived from the original on January 31, 2017 . Retrieved April 30, 2017. Methods of Logic. The four editions of this book resulted from a more advanced undergraduate course in logic Quine taught from the end of World War II until his 1978 retirement.

Agrawal R, Mannila H, Srikant R, Toivonen H, Verkamo AI (1996) Advances in knowledge discovery and data mining, chap. Fast discovery of association rules. American Association for Artificial Intelligence, pp 307–328 Hahn, L. E., and Schilpp, P. A., eds., 1986. The Philosophy of W. V. O. Quine (The Library of Living Philosophers). Open Court. Quine, Willard Van Orman; Hahn, Lewis Edwin (1986). The Philosophy of W.V. Quine. Open Court. p.6. ISBN 978-0812690101. In my third year of high school I walked often with my new Jamaican friends, Fred and Harold Cassidy, trying to convert them from their Episcopalian faith to atheism. The set theory of Mathematical Logic is NF augmented by the proper classes of von Neumann–Bernays–Gödel set theory, except axiomatized in a much simpler way; What’s that?” my brother said after reading the title of this book. "The most pretentious book ever written?”Wei W, Liang J, Qian Y, Wang F, Dang C (2010) Comparative study of decision performance of decision tables induced by attribute reductions. Int J General Syst 39:813–838. doi: 10.1080/03081079.2010.499102