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Anonymous Sun Mar 8 16:01:54 2015 No.6242102 [Reply] [Original]

Daily reminder that Quine killed Logical Positivism and metaphysics isn't dead

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 16:04:46 2015 No.6242114 lel Quine while killing LP killed all possible metaphyisics

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 16:25:27 2015 No.6242203 >>6242102 Yeah because Quine was such a metaphysician ...

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 16:37:07 2015 No.6242262 >>6242102 While I agree with the spirit of your post, the Vienna Circle was dead long before Quine. He just made sure it would never resurrect. also, >gavagai

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 19:26:07 2015 No.6243331 >>6242262 Quine had a real knack for coming up with hypothetical nigger words

>>	Anonymous Sun Mar 8 19:32:56 2015 No.6243376 File: 114 KB, 952x1272, Kripke.jpg [View same] [iqdb] [saucenao] [google] Daily reminder that Quine did not understand modal logic at all and had the worst critique of it ever.