Willard Van Orman Quine (/kwaɪn/; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic...

French theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem and American logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote about similar concepts. In recent decades, the set of...

inscrutability) is a thesis by 20th century analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine in his book Word and Object. The main claim of this theory is that...

popular science book Gödel, Escher, Bach, in honor of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), who made an extensive study of indirect self-reference...

kinds, but a means to create instrumental understanding. In 1969, Willard Van Orman Quine brought the term "natural kind" into contemporary analytic philosophy...

geometry Petrick's method Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) Quine, Willard Van Orman (October 1952). "The Problem of Simplifying Truth Functions". The...

Quine's paradox is a paradox concerning truth values, stated by Willard Van Orman Quine. It is related to the liar paradox as a problem, and it purports...

well-known Geach–Kaplan sentence: Some critics admire only one another. Willard Van Orman Quine provided an early and influential formulation of ontological commitment:...

"Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is a paper by analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine published in 1951. According to University of Sydney professor of...

different ways. Furthermore, some philosophers (starting with Willard Van Orman Quine) have questioned whether there is even a clear distinction to be...

were heavily criticised by leading philosophers, particularly Willard van Orman Quine and Karl Popper, and even, within the movement itself, by Hempel...

paradox, in logic Quine (surname), people with the surname Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American philosopher and logician Quine–McCluskey algorithm...

Logico-Philosophicus), the Vienna Circle, logical positivists, and Willard Van Orman Quine. In the West, inquiry into language stretches back to the 5th century...

Hold come what may is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine. Beliefs that are "held come what may" are beliefs one is unwilling to...

Gerhard Gentzen and Stanisław Jaśkowski in 1934." According to Willard Van Orman Quine, universal instantiation and existential generalization are two...

of statements (a whole theory) can be so. It is attributed to Willard Van Orman Quine who motivated his holism through extending Pierre Duhem's problem...

non-well-founded, finitely axiomatizable set theory conceived by Willard Van Orman Quine as a simplification of the theory of types of Principia Mathematica...

and balloonist Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American philosopher and logician This page lists people with the surname Van Orman. If an internal...

be viewed as secondary causes of God(s). In the 20th century, Willard Van Orman Quine, George Santayana, and other philosophers argued that the success...

Word and Object is a 1960 work by the philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine, in which the author expands upon the line of thought of his earlier writings...

influence on Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), who analyzed the ontological commitments of scientific theories to solve ontological problems. Quine's student...

Bertrand Russell, Willard Van Orman Quine, the logical positivists, Timothy Williamson, Earl Conee and Richard Feldman. Russell, Quine and the logical positivists...

Classification”, Synthese, 27: 417–37. Quine, W.V., 1951, “Two dogmas of empiricism”, reprinted in W.V. Quine, 1953, From a logical point of view, Cambridge:...

verificationism: The 1951 article "Two Dogmas of Empiricism", by Willard Van Orman Quine, found no suitable explanations for the concept of analyticity...

to Angela Merkel" is understood as a general term. Philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) defends a different position by giving primacy to singular...

influences on Rorty's work were John Dewey, Ludwig Wittgenstein, Willard Van Orman Quine, and Wilfrid Sellars. Rorty argues that philosophy has unduly relied...

that all emeralds are grue" Goodman’s original definition of grue Willard Van Orman Quine (1970). "Natural Kinds" (PDF). In Nicholas Rescher; et al. (eds...

Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W. V. Quine, essays by Willard Van Orman Quine Quintessence: The Quality of Having It, a 1983 book by...

matrices containing the word "Caesar" than does any other individual. Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson provide other formulations of the principle...

concreta. The term abstract object is said to have been coined by Willard Van Orman Quine. Abstract object theory is a discipline that studies the nature...