The Research On Quine's Logical Thought

Willard Van Orman Quine,a famous philosopher of America, a logician, the founder of pragmatism Logic and he is also the representative of analytic philosophy movement, one of the most important philosophers in the 20th century. His discourse on the logical approach, Ontological Relativity, the Holism and the criticism of two dogmas of empiricism, etc, had a significant impact on the philosophy community.Research on Quine's logical thought, including his "real" views, methods of truth, has much practical significance and reference on deeply understanding of Quine's philosophy and the Influence of today's logic,etc.The paper is divided into three parts to investigate the Quine's Logical thought.The first part discusses the origin of Quine's logical thought. Including the Influence on the Quine's thought by logical empiricism, and Quine turned to the logic of pragmatism.The second part analyzed the logic of Quine's,including his limit on scope of logic and the contact and difference between logic and other disciplines in Quine's opinion, contain the agreement on the issue of set theory and Conventionalism. Then the paper focused on Quine's criticism of two dogmas of empiricism, analysis of the first and second dogma, In addition, the paper pointed out the biases discussed of Quine's.In the third part, the paper investigate the influence of Quine's logical thought On the one hand, the paper discussed the influence of Quine's logical thought on the western philosophy, include his Naturalism promoted the philosophy of science, his Ontological commitment and the promotion of contemporary American philosophy of pragmatism. On the other hand, the paper disscussed Quine's logical thought improved the development of logic, include his theory of Ontology, his criticism of modal logic, his application of Modern Logic, deny the ultimate truth.At the part of the conclusion, the paper summarized the Quine's philosophy, his logical thought and his academic achievement.