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Years ago, I was invited to write an essay on Quine’s philosophy of language. I thought about this for a while. Quine has a great deal to say about language, but his remarks are of quite varying kinds. I could not see how they cohered into a single project that deserved the name ‘Quine’s Philosophy of Language’. So I did not write the essay.
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Hylton, P. (2016). Quine’s Philosophies of Language. In: Janssen-Lauret, F., Kemp, G. (eds) Quine and His Place in History. History of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472519_10
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