{"id":8291,"date":"2013-12-11T05:39:56","date_gmt":"2013-12-11T05:39:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/11\/no-entity-without-identity-4\/"},"modified":"2013-12-11T05:39:56","modified_gmt":"2013-12-11T05:39:56","slug":"no-entity-without-identity-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2013\/12\/11\/no-entity-without-identity-4\/","title":{"rendered":"No Entity Without Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you lack identity, you are a nonentity.  Quine's slogan ought to be emblazoned over every polling place in the land, and tattooed onto the forearm of every dumbass liberal by a method both Kafkaesque and painful.<\/span><\/p>\n

The quotation below is genuine.  I just checked.  One can find it at the top of  p. 116, first full paragraph, of Word and Object<\/em> (MIT Press, 1960, eighth printing, February 1973).  I slogged through the whole of it in 1974.  Quine is no Aquinas.  At his door one receives, not bread, but a stone.<\/span><\/p>\n

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If you lack identity, you are a nonentity.  Quine's slogan ought to be emblazoned over every polling place in the land, and tattooed onto the forearm of every dumbass liberal by a method both Kafkaesque and painful. The quotation below is genuine.  I just checked.  One can find it at the top of  p. 116, … Continue reading “No Entity Without Identity”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8291","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-maxims-mottoes-epitaphs-etc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8291\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}