Willard Van Orman Quine
American philosopher and logician (1900–2000)
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Quine shaped 20th-century analytic philosophy through his work on logic and the nature of meaning. His Harvard perch from 1956 to 1978 made him a central figure in how philosophers think about language and ontology.
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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 was the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 1978.
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