Volume 25, Number 18 · November 23, 1978
Otherworldly
By W.V. Quine
Ways of Worldmaking
by Nelson Goodman
Hackett Publishing Company, 142 pp., $9.95
This book is a congeries. Not indeed an incongruous congeries, as of congers and costermongers, but withal a congeries to conjure with. For all its slenderness it offers us a philosophy of style, a philosophy of quotation, a philosophy of art, a philosophy of optical illusion, and a philosophy of nature. It is this last that packages the lot and gives it a name. The looseness of the package is in keeping with the philosophy that assembles it; for the doctrine is that there are many worlds, none all-embracing.
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