ONTOLOGIA E INDISPENSABILITÀ IN W.V. QUINE

Abstract: It would seem that for Quine all objects are mere posits of our epi - stemic and linguistic resources. This view might seem paradoxical, given that Quine declares himself a realist. However, Quine also argues that the contrast between mere posits and real objects is illusory since we are unavoidably confined to our conceptual scheme – the scheme that allows us to talk about the world. For us, real are all and only the indispensable entities that fall within our epistemic, linguistic and scientific conceptual scheme, whose roots are psychological and evolutionary. The Quinean ontological perspective thus appears as a form of epistemic and internal realism.