The Study Of Quine's Doctrine Of Truth

Quine is a key representatives of the contemporary analysis philosophy, his attack on analytic/synthetic, ontological commitment, holistic view of knowledge, for the development of analytic philosophy has a major impact. In order to better understand the basic content of Quine philosophy, I choose the theory Quine's of truth as the study.The truth of analytic philosophy including two main aspects. On the one hand, belong means and sentence, which is truth-bearers? According to the nominalism, Quine oppose regard the"mean"as object, which also opposed to the "mean" as object that can be called true or false. The sentence is on the living, and can be sensed, therefore,it is more reasonable to call sentence true or false. Another aspect of the theory of truth is about how to determine a sentence as truth.On determining truth-values of a specific sentence, Quine fully inherited the Tarski truth semantics, and use the Russell's theory of types to resolve the paradox;On determining truth-values of the logic of sentence ( logical formula), Quine bring forward five tied for the determination of the truth in his " logic philosophy ": that is, according to the structure is true, according to replace is truth, according to model is truth, according to certification procedures is truth, according to grammar is true;On determining the truth of theory, according to his holistic view of knowledge ,Quine conside that there are several different and totally equivalent theory, and in these types of theories, Quine introduced to pragmatism to distinguish truth and Meaningless.After discussed Quine's doctrine of truth, according to past research results, I pointed out that the Quine's theory of truth have three major characteristics: empirical, logicism, pragmatism. On the experience nature of the truth, As the paper said, using a method of self-referr can found that the simply empiricism can not effectively lead to a complete theoretical system of the truth. For pragmatism, as the paper pointed out, pragmatism is a inevitable result of the empiricism, bacause empiricism led to the agnostics. If we adhere to think the experience as a foundation of epistemology, we must use this tool of pragmatism, although the empiricism and pragmatism are certain lack of coordination of. Similarly, we refer to in accordance with the method of self-referr, you can discover the inherent contradictions of pragmatism.In the final conclusions, I have same sample views for the truth: empiricism and nominalism each of them is relative reasonable, but all exist some inevitable contradiction. empiricism can not provide a valid theory for necessity, and nominalism can not give principles of transcendental awareness a reality. I tried to experience to the distinction from external and internal experience to solve this issue, and concerned about this issue in the future to continue the work..