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Willard Van Orman Quine

American philosopher and logician (1900–2000).

Born June 25th, 1908 in Akron.

Died December 25th, 2000 at 92 years old in Boston.

Occupations
analytic philosopher, epistemologist, linguist, logician, mathematician, philosopher, philosopher of language, philosopher of science, university teacher

I could just remember how my father used to say that the reason for living was to get ready to stay dead a long time. William Faulkner