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Word and Object Word and Object new edition Willard Van Orman Quine foreword by Patricia Smith Churchland preface to the new edition by Dagfinn F ø llesdal The MIT Press Cambridge, Massachusetts London, England © 1960, 2013 Massachusetts Institute of Technology First edition published 1960 by the MIT Press All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher. MIT Press books may be purchased at special quantity discounts for business or sales promotional use. For information, please email [email protected] or write to Special Sales Department, The MIT Press, 55 Hayward Street, Cambridge, MA 02142. This book was set in Stone Sans and Stone Serif by Toppan Best-set Premedia Limited, Hong Kong. Printed and bound in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Quine, W. V. (Willard Van Orman) Word and object / Willard Van Orman Quine ; foreword by Patricia Smith Churchland ; preface to the new edition by Dagfinn Fø llesdal. — New ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-262-51831-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Semantics (Philosophy). 2. Logic, Symbolic and mathematical. 3. Language and languages — Philosophy. I. Title. B840.Q5 2013 121 ′ .68 — dc23 2012027957 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 To Rudolf Carnap Teacher and Friend Wie Schiffer sind wir, die ihr Schiff auf offener See umbauen mü ssen, ohne es jemals in einem Dock zerlegen und aus besten Bestandteilen neu errichten zu k ö nnen. — Otto Neurath Ontology recapitulates philology. — James Grier Miller Contents Foreword by Patricia Smith Churchland xi Preface to the New Edition by Dagfinn F ø llesdal xv Preface to the First Edition xxix 1 Language and Truth 1 1 Beginning with Ordinary Things 1 2 The Objective Pull; or, E pluribus unum 5 3 The Interanimation of Sentences 8 4 Ways of Learning Words 12 5 Evidence 15 6 Posits and Truth 19 2 Translation and Meaning 23 7 First Steps of Radical Translation 23 8 Stimulation and Stimulus Meaning 27 9 Occasion Sentences. Intrusive Information 32 10 Observation Sentences 36 11 Intrasubjective Synonymy of Occasion Sentences 41 12 Synonymy of Terms 46 13 Translating Logical Connectives 52 14 Synonymous and Analytic Sentences 55 15 Analytical Hypotheses 61 16 On Failure to Perceive the Indeterminacy 66 3 The Ontogenesis of Reference 73 17 Words and Qualities 73 18 Phonetic Norms 77 19 Divided Reference 82 20 Predication 87 21 Demonstratives. Attributives 91 22 Relative Terms. Four Phases of Reference 96 23 Relative Clauses. Indeﬁ nite Singular Terms 100 24 Identity 104 25 Abstract Terms 108