'''''Word and Object''''' is, philosopher [[Willard Van Orman Quine]]'s most famous work, in which he expands on ideas fromin ''From a Logical Point of View'' (1953), and reformulatesreformulating earlier arguments,includinglike histhe attack on the [[analytic–synthetic distinction]] infrom "[[Two Dogmas of Empiricism]]".<ref name="autobio">{{cite book |author= Quine, Willard Van Orman |title=The Time of My Life: An Autobiography |publisher=MIT Press |___location= Cambridge, Massachusetts |year=1985 |page=392 |isbn= 978-0262670043 }}</ref> It introduces the [[thought experiment]] of [[radical translation]] and the related concept of [[indeterminacy of translation]].<ref name="Gibsonarticle">{{cite book |author=Gibson, Roger F. |title=The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy |publisher=Cambridge University Press |year=1999 |isbn=0-521-63722-8 |editor=Audi, Robert |___location=Cambridge |pages=767–768}}</ref>
