Time for some bunny-fun with our favoritemost ontological leporiphile -- Mr. Willard Van Orman Quine !!!
The sensible materiality of the rabbit was inessential to the example, since the prime numbers between 10 and 20 sustained the same point.
-- W.V.O.Q., “Existence and Quantification”
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| HMMmmmm..... ! !! |
…undetached rabbit-part…
-- W.V.O.Q., passim.
Well we would hope so ! ! !
Gavagai !
-- W.V.O.Q., Word and Object
You da man !
[For more wholesome Quinefun, click here.]
[If you'd like to see a really big bunny, click here! It depicts Quine furioso putting ontological sybarites to flight.]
[Note:
I took logic from Quine in college. He is a brilliant and witty writer, but in person -- at least with the undergraduates -- a singularly humorless and ponderous man. (Randy Allen Harris refers to him, with irrefutable finality, as The Venerable Quine.) I even suspect he didn't really like bunnies very much himself. Whether the rabbit parts in question were detached or undetached was, one suspects, a matter of ontological indifference to the great professor: for, as Quine has demonstrated, in either case the animal could be considered, like the world's sum of water, as "a single scattered whole". Or, phrasing the matter with precision: An intact rabbit, and a shmushed rabbit, can be safely interchanged salve veritate.]
--> [For more wholesome Quinefun, click here.]
[If you'd like to see a really big bunny, click here! It depicts Quine furioso putting ontological sybarites to flight.]
[Note:
I took logic from Quine in college. He is a brilliant and witty writer, but in person -- at least with the undergraduates -- a singularly humorless and ponderous man. (Randy Allen Harris refers to him, with irrefutable finality, as The Venerable Quine.) I even suspect he didn't really like bunnies very much himself. Whether the rabbit parts in question were detached or undetached was, one suspects, a matter of ontological indifference to the great professor: for, as Quine has demonstrated, in either case the animal could be considered, like the world's sum of water, as "a single scattered whole". Or, phrasing the matter with precision: An intact rabbit, and a shmushed rabbit, can be safely interchanged salve veritate.]
The illustration above pretty much captures his aspect as he made his way across the Yard.]
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