{"product_id":"pursuit-of-truth-9780674739512","title":"Pursuit of Truth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eQuine’s efforts to get beyond the confusion begin by rejecting the very idea of binding together word and thing, rejecting the focus on the isolated word. For him, observation sentences and theoretical sentences are the alpha and omega of the scientific enterprise.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePursuit of Truth\u003c\/i\u003e is, like all Quine’s works, most engagingly written. He strives for concision of the most telegraphic sort, and achieves it in a way that gives the special pleasure evoked by a conspicuous skill. -- Anthony Quinton * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eWith his usual wit and aplomb, Quine offers here his latest—though one hopes and expects not his last—word on a variety of intersecting topics that have figured centrally in his life’s work… The book offers not only a lucid and compelling summary of Quine’s views, but also provides invaluable clarifications, reformulations, and substantive updating… Capable of serving as a concise introduction to Quine’s views, this book will also prove invaluable in more sophisticated efforts to understand and appraise his accomplishments. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePART 1: EVIDENCE     1. Stimulation and prediction   2. Observation sentences    3. Theory-laden?    4. Observation categoricals   5. Test and refutation    6. Holism    7. Empirical content    8. Norms and aims     PART 2: REFERENCE    9. Bodies    10. Values of variables   11. Utility of reification   12. Indifference of ontology   13. Ontology defused    PART 3: MEANING    14. The field linguist's entering wedge   15. Stimulation again   16. To each his own   17. Translation resumed   18. Indeterminacy of translation   19. Syntax   20. Indeterminacy of reference   21. Whither meanings?   22. Domestic meaning   23. Lexicography    PART 4: INTENSION    24. Perception and observation sentences   25. Perception extended   26. Perception of things   27. Belief and perception   28. Propositional attitudes   29. Anomalous monism   30. Modalities   31. A mentalistic heritage    PART 5: TRUTH    32. Vehicles of truth   33. Truth as disquotation   34. Paradox   35. Tarski's construction   36. Paradox skirted   37. Interlocked hierarchies   38. Excluded middle    39. Truth versus warranted belief   40. Truth in mathematics    41. Equivalent theories   42. Irresoluble rivalry   43. Two indeterminacies    References   Credits   Index","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51359094833495,"sku":"9780674739512","price":27.86,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780674739512.jpg?v=1754123561","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/pursuit-of-truth-9780674739512","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}