Why "suprisingly"? Quine and Derrida have a lot in common. Quine's main doctrines include the "indeterminacy of meaning" -- that there is no fact of the matter about what any statement mean; the "opacity of reference" -- that there is no fixed object to which any term refers, and the Quine-Duhem thesis that everything is up for grabs. I don't know that much about deconstruction, but these ideas sound deconstructionist to me from what I do understand.
jks
--- Eubulides <paraconsistent at comcast.net> wrote:
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Doug Henwood" <dhenwood at panix.com>
>
> One of Derrida's earliest formulations of
> deconstruction -- the landmark essay "Structure,
> Sign, and Play in
> the Discourse of the Human Sciences" -- was
> delivered at a
> now-legendary conference at the Johns Hopkins
> University in 1966.
>
> ==============
>
> It's arguable that this work was substantially
> influenced by the work, of
> all people, W.V.O Quine as Derrida was the first
> person besides Quine
> himself to translate Quine's work into French:
>
>
http://www.mindspring.com/~dgolumbi/docs/papers/quineandderrida.pdf
>
> "Quine, Derrida and the Question of Philosophy"
> David Golumbia
> The Philosophical Forum, Vol. XXX, No. 3, 1999
>
>
>
> "Quine, of all our philosophers, is the most
> French." [John Woods]
>
>
> Ian
>
>
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