Wig Wig A wig is a head covering made from human hair, animal hair, or synthetic fiber. The word wig is short for periwig., which makes its earliest known appearance in the English language in William Shakespeare's "The Two Gentlemen of Verona". Julia, disguised as the boy Sebastian, says "I'll get me such a coloured periwig." [II,2.81] Some people wear wigs to disguise baldness; a wig may be used as a less intrusive and less expensive alternative to medical therapies for restoring hair or for a religious reason. In Egyptian society men and women commonly had clean shaven or close cropped
Word and Object holism, against countenancing propositions, and tries to show that the meanings of theoretical sentences are indeterminate and that the reference of terms is inscrutable. Central to Quine’s philosophy is his linguistic behaviorism. Quine has remarked that one may or may not choose to be a behaviorist in psychology, but one has no choice but to be a behaviorist in linguistics. This influence can be seen in "Word and Object". In chapter 2 a linguist has to translate a native's unknown language into English. What is so specifically behavioristic there is that the linguist has nothing to go on but verbal