Os categóricos de observação: uma solução para viabilizar o holismo semântico “moderado” de Quine

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2006

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The “observational categoricals” constitute a very special set of sentences of great importance in the last phase of Quine’s work. According to Quine, the grammatical structure and therefore the role played by these sentences considered by the philosopher as the neutral empirical content of theories would solve several difficulties in semantics and epistemology. Most urgent among them would be: the incommensurability of theories, their empirical verifiability, as well as explaining the language learning process. In consequence of the importance of their task and their rather late appearance, we consider quite relevant to investigate in details the origin of these choice, as well as the structure and function of these sentences, very peculiars to Quine’s semantical approach.

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Quine, Holismo semântico, Categóricos de observação, Incomensurabilidade de teorias, Semantical holism, Observational categoricals, Incommensurability of theories

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VELLOSO, Araceli. Os categóricos de observação: uma solução para viabilizar o holismo semântico “moderado” de Quine. Principia, Florianópolis, v. 10, n. 1, p. 81-104, 2006.