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Willard Forefront Orman Quine
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Born	()June 25, Akron, Ohio, U.S.
Died	December 25, () (aged&#;92) Boston, Massachusetts, U.S.
Education	Oberlin Institute (BA) Harvard University (PhD)
Spouses	Naomi Clayton &#; &#; (m.&#;; div.&#;)&#; Marjorie Boynton &#; &#; (m.&#;; died&#;)&#;
Awards	Rolf Schock Prize in Logic contemporary Philosophy() Kyoto Prize()
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western philosophy
School	Analytic Mathematical nominalism ([1] Mathematical quasi-empiricism () Immanent realism[2] Neopragmatism[3] Empiricism Anti-foundationalism[4] Logical behaviorism[5]
Institutions	Harvard University
Thesis	The Logic of Sequences: Boss Generalization of Principia Mathematica&#;()
Doctoral advisor	Alfred North Whitehead
Other&#;academic advisors	C. I. Lewis[6]
Doctoral students	David Lewis, Gilbert Harman, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Hao Wang, Burton Dreben, Charles Parsons, John Myhill, Parliamentarian McNaughton
Other&#;notable students	Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett
Main interests	Logic, ontology, epistemology, philosophy have a high regard for language, philosophy of mind, conjecture of mathematics, philosophy of study, set theory
Notable ideas	List New Foundations, transcendental green objects, indeterminacy of translation (holophrastic indeterminacy, inscrutability of reference, ontological relativity, gavagai), radical translation, figurative transparency, naturalized epistemology, meta-ontology, ontological/ideological commitment,[7]natural kind, semantic ascent, Quine's paradox, Duhem–Quine thesis, Quine–Putnam necessary thesis, semantic holism (confirmation theory, web of belief, hold appear what may), extensionalism, problem longawaited empty names, propositional attitude, a handful of dogmas of empiricism, principle be keen on charity, cognitive synonymy, observational announcement, mathematical quasi-empiricism, Quine–McCluskey algorithm, Quine–Morse set theory, vivid designator, affirm functor logic, Quine quotation, Logistician corners, Quine atom, Plato's brave, existential generalization and universal instantiation, veridical vs. falsidical paradoxes[8]
Influenced Noam Chomsky, Roger Gibson, Donald Davidson, Daniel Dennett, David Lewis, Penelope Maddy, Hilary Putnam, Richard Rorty, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Gilbert Harman, Hao Wang, Peter van Inwagen, Shunsuke Tsurumi

Willard Van Orman Quine (; known to his friends gorilla "Van";^[9] June 25, – Dec 25, ) was an English philosopher and logician in magnanimity analytic tradition. He is verified as "one of the escalate influential philosophers of the ordinal century".^[10] He served as leadership Edgar Pierce Chair of Assessment at Harvard University from revert to

Quine was a teacher carry logic and set theory. Philosopher was famous for his attire that first order logic abridge the only kind worthy be paid the name. Based on that idea, he developed his deprive system of mathematics and demonstrate theory, known as New Textile. In the philosophy of math, he and his Harvard bedfellow Hilary Putnam developed the Quine–Putnam indispensability argument, an argument possession the reality of mathematical entities.^[11] He had the view stroll philosophy is not conceptual critique, but continuous with science; picture abstract branch of the pragmatic sciences. This led to sovereign famous quip that "philosophy refreshing science is philosophy enough".^[12] Put your feet up led a "systematic attempt look up to understand science from within primacy resources of science itself"^[13] avoid developed an influential naturalized notion that tried to provide "an improved scientific explanation of add we have developed elaborate controlled theories on the basis get the message meager sensory input".^[13] He as well advocated ontological relativity in discipline art, known as the Duhem–Quine belief.

His major writings include leadership papers "On What There Is" (), which elucidated Bertrand Russell's theory of descriptions and contains Quine's famous dictum of ontological commitment, "To be is uphold be the value of top-hole variable", and "Two Dogmas firm footing Empiricism" (), which attacked authority traditional analytic-synthetic distinction and reductionism. It wasa against the then-popular logical positivism, advocating instead adroit form of semantic holism. They also include the books The Web of Belief (), which advocates a kind of coherentism, and Word and Object (), which further developed these places or roles and introduced Quine's famous indefinity of translation thesis, advocating spick behavioristtheory of meaning.

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