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Quiddities : An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary.
Title:
Quiddities : An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary.
Author:
Quine, W. V.
ISBN:
9780674042438
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (262 pages)
Contents:
Preface -- Contents -- Alphabet -- Altruism -- Anomaly -- Artificial Languages -- Atoms -- Beauty -- Belief -- Classes versus Properties -- Classes versus Sets -- Communication -- Complex Numbers -- Consonant Clusters -- Constructivism -- Copula -- Creation -- Decimals and Dimidials -- Definition -- Discreteness -- Etymology -- Euphemism -- Excluded Middle -- Extravagance -- Fermat's Last Theorem -- Formalism -- Freedom -- Free Will -- Functions -- Future -- Gambling -- Gender -- Gödel's Theorem -- Ideas -- Identity -- Idiotisms -- Impredicativity -- Infinite Numbers -- Inflection -- Information -- Kinship of Words -- Knowledge -- Language Drift -- Language Reform -- Latin Pronunciation -- Lines -- Longitude and Latitude -- Marks -- Mathematosis -- Meaning -- Mind versus Body -- Misling -- Natural Numbers -- Necessity -- Negation -- Paradoxes -- Phonemes -- Plurals -- Predicate Logic -- Prediction -- Prefixes -- Prizes -- Pronunciation -- Real Numbers -- Recursion -- Redundancy -- Reference, Reification -- Rhetoric -- Semantic Switch -- Senses of Words -- Singular Terms -- Space-Time -- Syntax -- Things -- Tolerance -- Trinity -- Truth -- Type versus Token -- Units -- Universal Library -- Universals -- Usage and Abusage -- Use versus Mention -- Variables -- Zero -- Index.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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