Willard Van Orman Quine, one of America’s preeminent thinkers, whose analysis of language and reality had wide influence in the world of philosophy, has died. The Edgar Pierce professor emeritus at ...

In Word and Object, W.V. Quine dismisses connotations that result from the work of explicating expressions as “don’t-cares.” This paper traces the history of this phrase to an algorithm that Quine ...

Willard Van Orman Quine, 92, for decades one of the luminaries of the American academic world, a philosopher who did his thinking about thought itself, died on Christmas Day in Boston, where he lived.

In this thesis, I aim to present Thomas Aquinas’s semantic theory and its relationship to his understanding of truth. For the sake of clarifying certain themes in the Thomistic approach, I briefly ...