Word and Object.

£250 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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).

• Year: 1960

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