W. V. Quine
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Definition
- Proper noun:
- Willard Van Orman Quine: An American philosopher and logician. He is known for his influential work in the philosophy of language, epistemology, and logic, advocating for a naturalized, empirical view of knowledge that is deeply connected to language.
Usage
- Proper noun:
- The philosophical arguments of W. V. Quine challenged the traditional analytic-synthetic distinction.
- In his essay "Two Dogmas of Empiricism," W. V. Quine presented a holistic view of scientific theories.
Advanced Usage
- "Quinean" (adjective): Relating to or characteristic of the philosophical ideas of W. V. Quine.
- The philosopher offered a Quinean critique of the foundationalist approach.
- "to Quine" (verb, informal/rare): In programming and logic, to create a —a program or statement that produces its own source code as output. This term is derived from his name due to his work in logic.
- The challenge was to write a program that could quine itself.
Variants and Related Words
- Quine (noun): A common shortened reference to W. V. Quine.
- Quine was a central figure in 20th-century analytic philosophy.
- Quine-Duhem thesis (noun): A philosophical thesis, associated with Quine and Pierre Duhem, emphasizing the holistic nature of scientific verification.
Synonyms
- Willard Van Orman Quine
- Willard Quine
Related Terms and Concepts
- Naturalized epistemology: A philosophical approach, strongly advocated by Quine, which applies empirical, scientific methods to the study of knowledge itself.
- Ontological relativity: A Quinean concept concerning the indeterminacy of translation and the relativity of a theory's ontological commitments.
- Confirmation holism: The view, associated with Quine, that scientific theories are tested as interconnected wholes, not statement by statement.
Noun
- United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)