D. Davidson

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The Hill Country of Texas in 1870 was a dangerous place. Outlaws and bandits roamed the countryside, ready to set upon unwary travelers. Settlers on the edge of civilization lived in constant fear of marauding Comanches, Kiowas, and other tribes of hostile Indians. Texas had just come out from under Reconstruction, but some Confederate veterans of the Civil War still held grudges against freedmen, carpet baggers, and scalawags. In addition, corrupt officials inhabited some of the frontier towns. When freebooters ride roughshod in the belligerent land, bold men are needed to bring the outlaws to justice. One such man is Deputy U. S. Marshal Nahum Putney, dedicated to tracking down those that terrorize the frontier. Putney comes to Llano hunting a murderer, but brigands and an amoral sheriff accuse Putney, himself, of murder in a reversal of circumstances. If Putney stands, he brings danger to the people of Llano, so he must run. But he will only run so far. If the outlaws want a battle, they will find it when they come to Crying Rock!

Battle at Crying Rock

Putney's War

Jaakko Hintikka

It is gratifying to see that philosophers' continued interest in Words and Objections has been so strong as to motivate a paperback edition. This is gratifying because it vindicates the editors' belief in the permanent im portance of Quine's philosophy and in the value of the papers com menting on it which were collected in our volume. Apart from a couple of small corrections, only one change has been made. The list of Professor Quine's writings has been brought up to date. The editors cannot claim any credit for this improvement, however. We have not tried to imitate the Library of Living Philosophers volumes and to include Professor Quine's autobiography in this volume, but we are fortunate to publish here his brand-new auto bibliography. 1975 THE EDITORS TABLE OF CONTENTS V PREFACE 1 EDITORIAL INTRODUCTION 1. 1. C. SMAR T / Quine's Philosophy of Science 3 GILBERT HARMAN / An Introduction to 'Translation and Meaning', Chapter Two of Word and Object 14 ERIK STENIUS / Beginning with Ordinary Things 27 NOAM CHOMSKY / Quine's Empirical Assumptions 53 1AAKKO HINTIKKA / Behavioral Criteria of Radical Translation 69 BARRY STROUD / Conventionalism and the Indeterminacy of Translation 82 P. F. STRA WSON / Singular Terms and Predication 97 118 H. P. GRICE / Vacuous Names P. T.

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