W.V.O. Quine
OriginUSA
Era1908
SchoolAnalytic
About W.V.O. Quine
Two Dogmas of Empiricism demolished the analytic and synthetic distinction. To be is to be the value of a bound variable. Experience meets the web of belief only at its edges. Word and Object argued translation is radically indeterminate. Decrypted enemy codes for the Navy during World War II. Taught at Harvard for decades.
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