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...

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...

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

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...

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

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...

Harvard University in 1961, under the direction of Burton Dreben and Willard Van Orman Quine. He taught for many years at Columbia University before moving...

New Foundations (NF) is an axiomatic set theory, conceived by Willard Van Orman Quine as a simplification of the theory of types of Principia Mathematica...

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

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

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...

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...

distinction. It was introduced by the philosopher and logician Willard Van Orman Quine in his book Mathematical Logic, originally published in 1940. Put...

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...

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:...

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

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

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

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...

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

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...

foundationalism fell into decline – largely due to the influence of Willard Van Orman Quine, whose ontological relativity found any belief networked[clarification...

distinction is tenable has been put into question. For example, Willard Van Orman Quine has argued that there are no purely analytic truths, i.e. that...

metaphysics, Plato's beard is a paradoxical argument dubbed by Willard Van Orman Quine in his 1948 paper "On What There Is". The phrase came to be identified...

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

philosophy at Harvard University in 1963. There, he was a student of Willard Van Orman Quine. In 1965 Dennett received his DPhil in philosophy at the University...