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QUINE
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• QUINE (noun)
The noun QUINE has 1 sense:
1. United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
Familiarity information: QUINE used as a noun is very rare.
Sense 1
Meaning:
United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
Classified under:
Nouns denoting people
Synonyms:
Quine; W. V. Quine; Willard Van Orman Quine
Instance hypernyms:
logician; logistician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)
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