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QUINE
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
United States philosopher and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that depended on language (1908-2001)
Synonyms:
Quine; W. V. Quine; Willard Van Orman Quine
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Instance hypernyms:
logician; logistician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)
philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)