Saturday, June 27, 2020

W.V.O. Quine


It is so epically badly written I’ve always wondered why the editor let it be published. And why Quine couldn’t see it himself. I wonder if he just never read an autobiography or memoir?
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Of that pair, surely Sellars was the odder. But their being together in close quarters might have amplified each’s strangeness. Quine was also apparently a fantastic banjo player.

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