Re: Canonical Quine literature?
John Cowan <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:38:46 -0400
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Arnt Richard Johansen scripsit: > IIRC, Nick the Greek said that the semantics of Lojban is due to Quine and > not to Montague. Can anyone point me to the books Quine wrote on semantics > that purportedly influenced Lojban? The most relevant IMHO (though pc is on record as disagreeing) is _Word and Object_, 1960. Much of it reads like an over-literal translation from Lojban.... -- Verbogeny is one of the pleasurettes John Cowan <jcowan-k6JZYsoqQQ8PxK1qzZLvrwC/[email protected]> of a creatific thinkerizer. http://www.reutershealth.com -- Peter da Silva http://www.ccil.org/~cowan