QUINE

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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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting people

Instance hypernyms:

logician; logistician (a person skilled at symbolic logic)

philosopher (a specialist in philosophy)

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