quine in A Sentence

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    Quine was concerned with the meaning of modal logic.

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    Ultimately, Quine concluded that there would always be multiple equally good translations.

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    As a childhood friend, director Richard Quine put it:“Let's face it.

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    Quine imagined a foreign language completely unrelated to any human language, but here, I will use German for illustration.

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    A Harvard professor, Quine is famous for imagining what it would take to translate a foreign language- a project he called radical translation.

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    The philosopher Willard Quine was responsible for initiating the concept of referential transparency, but it was also implicit in the approaches of Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead.

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    Russell and Quine sorted them out saying that they are not actually"referential", i.e., it is a mistake to think that the above examples are used to refer to entities.

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    A euphemism may itself devolve into a taboo word, through the linguistic process known as semantic change(specifically pejoration) described by W. V. O. Quine, and more recently dubbed the"euphemism treadmill" by Harvard professor Steven Pinker.

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    The point of Quine was to say that natural language is messy, or at least complicated, because it is made to be convenient for practical use, but philosophers and logicians should bring clarity by understanding them in the right way.

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