THE POVERTY OF THE STIMULUS: QUINE AND WITTGENSTEIN

The poverty of the stimulus: Quine and Wittgenstein

Quine and Wittgenstein were dominant auren3 figures in philosophy in the middle of the twentieth century.Many readers, like Quine himself, have felt that there are deep similarities between the two thinkers, though those similarities are difficult to articulate.I argue that they share the project of understanding the meaning of utterances by refere

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Passive Prey Discrimination in Surface Predatory Behaviour of Bait-Attracted White Sharks from Gansbaai, South Africa

Between the years 2008 and 2013, six annual research expeditions were carried out at Dyer Island (Gansbaai, South Africa) to study the surface behaviour of white sharks in the presence of two passive prey: tuna bait and a seal-shaped decoy.Sightings were performed from a commercial cage-diving boat over 247 h; auren3 250 different white sharks, wit

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