quine

Speech parts

1. quine - Noun

2. quine - Verb

3. Quine - Proper noun

Meaning

United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)

Source: WordNet

Synonyms

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Phrases with the word

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Examples

A closely related concept is hold more stubbornly at least, also popularized by Quine. Source: Internet

Both Putnam and Quine invoke naturalism to justify the exclusion of all non-scientific entities, and hence to defend the "only" part of "all and only". Source: Internet

During World War II, Quine lectured on logic in Brazil, in Portuguese, and served in the United States Navy in a military intelligence role, deciphering messages from German submarines, and reaching the rank of lieutenant commander. Source: Internet

Finally, many philosophers prefer simpler ontologies populated with only the bare minimum of types of entities, or as W. V. Quine said "They have a taste for 'desert landscapes.' Source: Internet

Following Quine, Baker states that a theory, T, is ontologically committed to items F if and only if T entails that F′s exist. Source: Internet

For a comprehensive treatment of predicate functor logic and its history, see Quine (1976). Source: Internet

Close letter words and terms

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