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In my ill-organized way I have only now, a year late, come upon Gary Ebbs’ brilliant review of my Pursuit of Truth.1 I am flattered by his scholarly command of my writings and impressed with his penetration to crucial points. I am thankful, amid all this, for his evidently having missed one vital point in my evolving views; for other readers will have missed it a fortiori, and I am now alerted to make amends for my inadequate exposition. The point he seems to have missed is the preestablished intersubjective harmony of perceptual similarity standards, rooted in natural selection.
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Quine, W.V. (1960) Word and Object (Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press).
Quine, W.V. (1974) Roots of Reference ( LaSalle, Ill.: Open Court).
Quine, W.V. (1990) Pursuit of Truth ( Cambridge: Harvard).
Quine, W.V. (1992) Pursuit of Truth, second edition ( Cambridge: Harvard).
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Quine, W.V. (2016). Preestablished Harmony (1995). In: Janssen-Lauret, F., Kemp, G. (eds) Quine and His Place in History. History of Analytic Philosophy. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137472519_5
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