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Re: [jboske] Canonical Quine literature?



Arnt Richard Johansen scripsit:
> IIRC, Nick the Greek said that the semantics of Lojban is due to Quine and
> not to Montague. Can anyone point me to the books Quine wrote on semantics
> that purportedly influenced Lojban?

The most relevant IMHO (though pc is on record as disagreeing) is _Word and 
Object_, 1960.  Much of it reads like an over-literal translation from Lojban....

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