biography
| name: |
Quine, Willard Van Orman
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pronunciation:
[kwiyn]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908–2000)
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| biography:
| Philosopher and logician, born in Akron, Ohio, USA. He studied at Prague, Oxford, and Harvard, and became professor of philosophy at Harvard (1948–78, now emeritus). Much influenced by Carnap, the Vienna Circle, and the empiricist tradition, he went on to make his own distinctive and original contributions to philosophy. His philosophy of language challenges the standard distinctions between analysis and synthetic truths and between science and metaphysics. His books include Mathematical Logic (1940), Word and Object (1960), The Roots of Reference (1974), The Logic of Sequences (1990), and From Stimulus to Science (1995). |
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