Published: 2018-09-031

Quine on Learning Language: Psychogenesis of Reference

Adam Bastek
Humanities and Natural Sciences
Section: Articles
https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.492

Abstract

This paper focuses on the psychogenesis of reference discussed by Willard Van Orman Quine (The Roots o f Reference). Quine examines the way we learn to speak referringly and refer to objects. The purpose of this paper is to present some steps of Quine's psychogenetic reconstruction and its ontological consequences.

Keywords:

referential apparatus, psychogenesis of reference, the value of a variable, quantification, physical object, ontology

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Bastek, A. (2018). Quine on Learning Language: Psychogenesis of Reference. Humanities and Natural Sciences, (20), 193–201. https://doi.org/10.31648/hip.492

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