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...
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French theoretical physicist Pierre Duhem and American logician Willard Van Orman Quine, who wrote about similar concepts. In recent decades, the set of...
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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...
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Inscrutability of reference (category Willard Van Orman Quine)
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...
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Natural kind (section Willard Van Orman Quine)
kinds, but a means to create instrumental understanding. In 1969, Willard Van Orman Quine brought the term "natural kind" into contemporary analytic philosophy...
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different ways. Furthermore, some philosophers (starting with Willard Van Orman Quine) have questioned whether there is even a clear distinction to be...
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Two Dogmas of Empiricism (category Willard Van Orman Quine)
"Two Dogmas of Empiricism" is a paper by analytic philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine published in 1951. According to University of Sydney professor of...
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geometry Petrick's method Qualitative comparative analysis (QCA) Quine, Willard Van Orman (October 1952). "The Problem of Simplifying Truth Functions". The...
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Logical positivism (section Quine)
were heavily criticised by leading philosophers, particularly Willard van Orman Quine and Karl Popper, and even, within the movement itself, by Hempel...
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Ontological commitment (section Quine's criterion)
well-known Geach–Kaplan sentence: Some critics admire only one another. Willard Van Orman Quine provided an early and influential formulation of ontological commitment:...
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Logico-Philosophicus), the Vienna Circle, logical positivists, and Willard Van Orman Quine. In the West, inquiry into language stretches back to the 5th century...
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paradox, in logic Quine (surname), people with the surname Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American philosopher and logician Quine–McCluskey algorithm...
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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...
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New Foundations (category Willard Van Orman Quine)
non-well-founded, finitely axiomatizable set theory conceived by Willard Van Orman Quine as a simplification of the theory of types of Principia Mathematica...
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Word and Object (category Works by Willard Van Orman Quine)
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...
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Hold come what may (category Willard Van Orman Quine)
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...
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Naturalism (philosophy) (section W. V. O. Quine)
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...
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Confirmation holism (redirect from Duhem-Quine Problem)
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...
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and Robert Cloyd Quine. He was a nephew of philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine. After graduating from Earlham College in 1965, Quine earned a law degree...
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and balloonist Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American philosopher and logician This page lists people with the surname Van Orman. If an internal...
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predicates are "entrenched" in our language.[original research?] Willard Van Orman Quine offers a practical solution to this problem by making the metaphysical...
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Universal instantiation (section Quine)
Gerhard Gentzen and Stanisław Jaśkowski in 1934." According to Willard Van Orman Quine, universal instantiation and existential generalization are two...
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Bertrand Russell, Willard Van Orman Quine, the logical positivists, Timothy Williamson, Earl Conee and Richard Feldman. Russell, Quine and the logical positivists...
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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...
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influence on Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), who analyzed the ontological commitments of scientific theories to solve ontological problems. Quine's student...
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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:...
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commentator and activist Van Morrison (born 1945), Northern Irish singer, songwriter, musician and producer Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000), American...
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Quasi-quotation (redirect from Quine quote)
distinction. It was introduced by the philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine in his book Mathematical Logic, originally published in 1940. Put...
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matrices containing the word "Caesar" than does any other individual. Willard Van Orman Quine and Donald Davidson provide other formulations of the principle...
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as mathematical platonism. It was named after the philosophers Willard Van Orman Quine and Hilary Putnam, and is one of the most important arguments in...
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