Re: Canonical Quine literature?

John Cowan <[email protected]> Thu, 11 Sep 2003 09:38:46 -0400
Newsgroups gmane.science.linguistics.lojban.jboske
Message-ID <[email protected]>
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