Quiddities

W. V. Quine was Edgar Pierce Professor of Philosophy, Harvard University. He wrote twenty-one books, thirteen of them published by Harvard University Press.

A chief pleasure of reading these essays lies in their unexpected connections. A path through the side-alleys of cross-reference in Quiddities draws a revealing map of Mr. Quine’s interests… Few people apart from Mr. Quine could write a sensible and informative essay on Things in two-and-a-half pages.

• Alphabet Altruism Anomaly Artificial Languages Atoms Beauty Belief Classes versus Properties Classes versus Sets Communication Complex Numbers Consonant Clusters Constructivism Copula Creation Decimals and Dimidials Definition Discreteness Etymology Euphemism Excluded Middle Extravagance Fermat's Last Theorem Formalism Freedom Free Will Functions Future Gambling Gender Godel's Theorem Ideas Identity Idiotisms Impredicativity Infinite Numbers Inflection Information Kinship of Words Knowledge Language Drift Language Reform Latin Pronunciation Lines Longitude and Latitude Marks Mathematosis Meaning Mind versus Body Misling Natural Numbers Necessity Negation Paradoxes Phonemes Plurals Predicate Logic Prediction Prefixes Prizes Pronunciation Real Numbers Recursion Redundancy Reference, Reification Rhetoric Semantic Switch Senses of Words Singular Terms Space-Time Syntax Things Tolerance Trinity Truth Type versus Token Units Universal Library Universals Usage and Abusage Use versus Mention Variables Zero Index