Willard Van Orman Quine
1908–2000 — philosopher; critique of the analytic/synthetic distinction
Author
Analytic philosopher; 'Two Dogmas' (1951). Corpus citation is partial — see the work entry.
Willard Van Orman Quine (1908–2000) was an American philosopher and logician. His Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951) attacked the sharp analytic/synthetic distinction and argued that beliefs face experience holistically — the web of belief.
Corpus use
Partial citation only. What we take from Quine, what we do not, and how that relates to the author’s stance are documented on the 1951 work entry — not repeated across articles or terms.
Primary work
→ Two Dogmas of Empiricism (1951)