Willard Van Orman Quine

46 robert j. fogelin
Quine’s cosmic complement is that it is the volume of the entire universe
minus Quine’s volume, and so on. It is hard to think of a scientific
use for such an entity, but still it is well defined.
11. Expressions that are not truth-bearers are sometimes conjoined – for
example, questions – but these at least have a propositional content,
which presumably is wholly lacking in observation sentences.
12. See Fogelin, “Quine’s Limited Naturalism.”
13. Fara, In Conversation with W. V. Quine.
14. Ibid.
15. Ibid.
16. Because of the limitation of space, I have not commented on the secondary
literature concerning Quine. I have, however, profited from
it, particularly from the writings of Roger F. Gibson and Christopher
Hookway.
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