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On Quine's Logical Truth Ideology

Posted on:2012-05-31Degree:MasterType:Thesis
Country:ChinaCandidate:B XuFull Text:PDF
GTID:2215330368489202Subject:Logic
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Quine (w. v. Quine) is a contemporary American philosopher and logician. The pursuit of truth is the immortal duty of philosophy. Quine also said:"logic, like any sciences, takes the pursuit of truth as its mission." Quine's logic truth thought has extensive far-reaching influence on the development of the contemporary western logic truth theory. Exploring the really and logical thinking of Quine's logical truth thought, it can help us make an objective evaluation from the perspective of historical dialectical point, and affirm the contribution of his thought while the enlightenment on the development of the truth ideas in the 20th century. Besides the achievements on the field of analysis philosophy and language philosophy, Quine also have made some contribute. Quine's philosophy takes the first-order logic for framework, the naturalism language viewpoint and behavioral meaning theory as a theory basis, and to build his the theoretical system with the nature epistemology as the main theme. The discussion on the truth of logic is the important constituent of his theory. His main works From the Point of the Logic expounded his logic ideology, such as definition, properties, characteristics and so on, which deserve our serious attention.
Keywords/Search Tags:Quine, logic truth, ideology
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