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Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American logician and philosopher in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century". He held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 1978.
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science · American philosopher and logician (1908–2000) · mathematician · analytic philosopher · philosopher of language · epistemologist · philosopher of science · university teacher · philosopher · logician · linguist · also Willard Van Orman Quine, Quien, Quine
Born 25 June 1908 · Died 25 December 2000 · Q214969
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2026· 3 entries
“our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience not individually but only as a corporate body”
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“folly to seek a boundary between synthetic statements, which hold contingently on experience, and analytic statements, which hold come what may”
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2009· 1 entry
“Friedrich Hayek as a Teacher”
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2000· 5 entries
Died 2000-12-25.
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“Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.”
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“Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.”
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“Set theory in sheep's clothing.”
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“Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.”
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy (1996).
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1993· 1 entry
Awarded Rolf Schock Prizes (1993).
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1985· 1 entry
“but I am not conscious of having done so.”
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1980· 1 entry
Quine received an honorary doctorate from the Faculty of Humanities at Uppsala University, Sweden
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1979· 1 entry
Awarded honorary doctor of Harvard University (1979).
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1976· 1 entry
“The Ways of Paradox and other Essays”
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1971· 1 entry
Awarded Carus Lectures (1971).
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1970· 1 entry
“Philosophy of Logic (1970)”
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1962· 1 entry
“The analytic and the synthetic”
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1940· 1 entry
Quine discovered that extant texts for philosophy students did not do justice to quantification theory or first-order predicate logic
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1932· 1 entry
Studied at Harvard University (1930–1932).
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1930· 1 entry
Studied at Oberlin College (1926–1930).
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1908· 1 entry
Born 1908-06-25.
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