Caring for Quine's Don't-Cares.
In Word and Object, W.V. Quine dismisses connotations that result from the work of explicating expressions as "don't-cares." This paper traces the history of this phrase to an algorithm that Quine developed in the 1950s, which became important in early computer engineering. Computer programmers even...
| Publicado en: | Monist Vol. 100; no. 2; pp. 266 - 288 |
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Oxford University Press / USA
Apr2017
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