This philosopher argued that the ontology of a theory consists of the objects over which the bound variables of the theory range in the paper "Ontology and Ideology."
This philosopher argued that the ontology of a theory consists of the objects over which the bound variables of the theory range in the paper "Ontology and Ideology." He referred to the problem of non-being as the problem of "Plato's beard" in his paper "On What There Is." Another of his papers draws on Neurath's parable of a "mariner who has to rebuild his boat while staying afloat in it" to formulate "an understanding of science as an institution or process in the world; that paper is "Epistemology Naturalized." In another work, he introduced the notion of the "observation sentence," whose "stimulus meaning" is invariant under "collateral information." For 10 points, identify this American philosopher who used the example of the word "gavagai" to refer to rabbits to demonstrate his thesis on the indeterminacy of translation in Word and Object and also wrote "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."
This philosopher argued that the ontology of a theory consists of the objects over which the bound variables of the theory range in the paper "Ontology and Ideology."
Willard Van Orman Quine