WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE

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• WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE (noun)
  The noun WILLARD VAN ORMAN 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: WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE used as a noun is very rare.

• WILLARD VAN ORMAN QUINE (noun)

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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)