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W. V. QUINE

Pronunciation (US):

• W. V. QUINE (noun)
The noun W. V. 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: W. V. QUINE used as a noun is very rare.

• W. V. QUINE (noun)

Sense 1

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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)

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