W. V. O. Quine (Willard Van Orman Quine)

Willard Van Orman Quine was a prominent 20th-century philosopher and logician known for his work in philosophy of language, logic, and epistemology. He challenged the distinction between meaningful and meaningless statements, arguing that our knowledge is a unified web of interconnected beliefs. Quine believed that science and philosophy are continuous and that empirical evidence influences all our theories. His ideas promote a naturalistic view of philosophy, emphasizing that human knowledge evolves through scientific inquiry without strict boundaries between different domains. His influential work reshaped understanding of language, meaning, and how we come to know what we know.