Word and Object.

QUINE (Willard van Orman).

Word and Object.

First edition. 8vo. xv, [1], 294 pp. Original green cloth, spine and front cover lettered and ruled in gilt and black, dust jacket (contents clean and unmarked; heavily edge worn jacket with various areas of loss and closed tears, a good copy only). New York and London, Published Jointly by The Technology Press of The Massachusetts Institute of Technology and John Wiley & Sons, Inc, 1960.

£250.00

Arguably the most famous book by the American philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine. ‘In 1941 Quine turned to the modalities, the notions of necessity and possibility, and argued that they are hopelessly unclear. Gradually, Quine strengthened his arguments against the modalities, until in Word and Object (1960) he showed that, when modality is combined with quantification, modal distinctions collapse. That is, everything that is possible is true, and everything that is true is necessary’ (ANB).

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