QUINE, W. V. (+) NELSON GOODMAN

Steps Toward a Constructive Nominalism.

Wisconsin, The Association for Symbolic Logic, 1947. 8vo. In the original printed wrappers. In "The Journal of Symbolic Logic, Volume 12, Number 4". Entire issue offered. Authors and title of the present paper written to top right corner of front wrapper. Top 5 cm of spine loose. Otherwise fine and clean. Pp. 105-122. [Entire volume: Pp. 105-162, (4).

First printing of Quine and Goodman's important paper in which they set themself the ambitious task of rephrasing all scientific theories in a language with an ontology consisting of objects in space-time.
They state that: "We do not believe in abstract entities. No one supposes that abstract entities - classes, relations, properties, etc. - exists in space-time; but we mean more than this. We renounce them altogether. We cannot use variables that call for abstract objects as value". (From the introduction to the present paper).

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