[lit-ideas] Re: A red-letter lit-ideas day


On 25-Jun-08, at 5:20 PM, palma@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:


it was D. Davidson who used the strange quoted expression

On Wed, 25 Jun
2008 cblists@xxxxxxxx wrote:


Today (June 25th) is the anniversary of the birth of George Orwell
(1903) and W.V.O. Quine, two giants of the twentieth century who ...
well, to paraphrase the latter, "Without whom, not."
Thanks for the correction - I was (mis)remembering it as Quine's dedication (to someone) in _Truth and Object_, not (as you correctily point out) as Davidson's dedication to Quine.
I see in trolling the Internet that the phrase is a more or less literal transaltion of 'sine qua non' .... 

By the way, I neglected to include Quine's birth year: 1908.
Chris Bruce
Kiel, Germany
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