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The position of Quine concerning scientific rigor in philosophy has been well established. This paper is concerned with his influence upon development of unified science theory, largely in terms of models put forward by Edward Froehlich Haskell. This discussion will be largely drawn from the correspondence of these two men and a few other colleagues in order to let them speak for themselves in their own words. Harold Cassidy, former Professor Emeritus of Chemistry at Yale, was intimately involved in these exchanges. The available correspondence* began in the late 1930s and spanned roughly five decades.
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Lodge, A., Leary, R.A., Quine, D.B. (2016). Observations on the Contribution of W.V. Quine to Unified Science Theory. 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_7
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