Download or read book Quintessence written by Willard Van Orman Quine and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2004-05-27 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Quintessence collects Quine’s classic essays in one volume, offering a much-needed introduction to his general philosophy. The selections take up analyticity and reductionism; the indeterminacy of translation of theoretical sentences and the inscrutability of reference; ontology; naturalized epistemology; philosophy of mind; and extensionalism.