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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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