How long does it take to read Word and Object?
Willard Van Orman Quine
Word and Object by Willard Van Orman Quine takes about 5 hours 23 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
About 5 hours 23 minutes
A weekend read
First published 1960. 294 pages, about 80,850 words.
11 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 8 hours 59 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 5 hours 23 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 3 hours 22 minutes |
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About the book
Language consists of dispositions, socially instilled, to respond observably to socially observable stimuli. This book examines the linguistic mechanisms of objective reference. Topics covered include the difficulties involved in translation, the anomalies and conflicts implicit in our language's referential apparatus, the semantic problems connected with the imputation of existence, and the reasons for admitting or repudiating each of various categories of supposed objects. Conclusions reached include rejecting the notion of a language-transcendent "sentence-meaning", and meaningful studies in the semantics of reference can only be directed toward substantially the same language in which they are conducted. (From publisher's copy)
Subjects: Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Philosophy, Languages, Semantics (Philosophy), Logic, Symbolic and mathematical, Lenguas
