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Willard Van Orman Quine



Quine, Willard Van Orman (1908– ), U.S. philosopher and logician. He rejected the long-standing philosophical claims that analytic (“self-evident”) statements are fundamentally distinguishable from synthetic (observational) statements and that the concept of synonymy (sameness of meaning) can be exemplified.



See also: Philosophy.

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