Our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience not individually but only as a corporate body.

Willard Van Orman Quine

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Willard Van Orman Quine

American logician (1908-2000), Harvard's Edgar Pierce Professor 1956-1978. Two Dogmas of Empiricism dismantled the analytic-synthetic split; Word and Object launched the indeterminacy of translation and naturalism.

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