ABSTRACT
Quine and Wittgenstein are two sides of the same coin-or so one hears around Cambridge, Mass. This lore appears in Putnam’s approving report about one of Quine’s colleagues and chief exegetes: ‘Burton Dreben…has long insisted on the deep similarities between central parts of the philosophies of Quine and Wittgenstein’ (POQ 424). Many others see deep similarities here, for better or worse. For worse, for instance, in the case of Chomsky. For better, or a nuanced better, above all in the case of Quine himself.
