A logical point of view

By M. Grace. British Dental Journal, 2003

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Thermoscopes, thermometers, and the foundations of measurement (2011, background): “Thus abstract objects, in particular, sets, were established in the philosophical landscape thanks to the indispensability argument of Quine and Putnam (Quine, 1961, 1–19 and especially Putnam, 1971, 337ff.).”
Dual Process Th eories (2013, background): “Although this may be true in principle (see Quine, 1953), there are some important issues to consider.”
Shared Reality: Experiencing Commonality with others' Inner States about the World (2009, background): “As described by Leslie (1987), the result of the mentalizing involved in theory of mind is that the primary proposition (that the new colleague is nice) becomes opaque (Quine, 1961).”
Dynamic inference and everyday conditional reasoning in the new paradigm (2013, background): “However, the Quine-Duhem thesis (Duhem, 1954/1914; Quine, 1953) suggests that one can never unequivocally falsify an isolated hypothesis because other adjustments in the web of belief of which it is a part may explain away the apparently falsifying observation.”