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Willard Van Orman Quine was born in Akron, Ohio in 1908.
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Quine's paper is considered to be the most important readings of the 20th century and that it had a major role in the demise of logical positivism. Quine attacks the analytic/synthetic distinction made by the logical positivists and the other dogma was reductionism.
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One of Quine's first books, and he suggested developing a naturalistic and relativized epistemology.
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In Quine's most famous book he expands on his writings from the Two Dogmas of Empiricism and From a Logical Point of View. He proposed the indeterminacy of radical translation.
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Quine's second to last book he wrote before his death. He sums up his views on cognitive meaning, objective reference, and the grounds of knowledge.
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Willard Van Orman Quine died in Boston, Massachusetts at the age of 92. His accomplishments include but are not limited to obtaining a Ph.D. in Philosophy from Harvard University, he won the first Schock Prize in Logic and Philosophy, and was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy.