Willard Van Orman Quine

Definitions of Willard Van Orman Quine
  1. noun
    United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
    synonyms: Quine, W. V. Quine
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    logician, logistician
    a person skilled at symbolic logic
    philosopher
    a specialist in philosophy
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