American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth
Edition - Quine, Willard van Orman 1908-2000. American analytic
philosopher and logician whose major writings, including Word
and Object (1960), concern issues of language and meaning.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia - n. United States philosopher
and logician who championed an empirical view of knowledge that
depended on language (1908-2001) “Quine is fantastic, but I
wasn’t exposed to him by picking up Word and Object and reading
it through.” “And I also think that Carnap’s reply to Quine is
pretty good, but certainly if we were to compare influence when
it comes to criticism of conceptual analysis, Quine must be
ranked ahead of Rorty.” “(It's not clear what entitles Quine to
this crucial “only,” but his doctrine has been read as
standardly including it; see Rey 1998 for discussion).” “The
present paper is a modest attempt in this direction, mainly
looking at the take on language by scholars such as Quine, F. de
Saussure, Austin, J.” “The view