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Birthday
This is the day W.V. Quine was born -
Rejection of previous understandings
Throughout the 1930's and 1940's, W.V. Quine accepted the popular belief that analytic as "in true virtue of being alone". He believed that though through analyzing you could find the true truth of things, the idea of things being truthful were inherently unsatisfactory. -
Confirming Holism Viewpoints
In his paper published in 1951, Two Dogmas of Empiricism, W.V. Quine confirmed his understanding of holism that all concepts are under-determined by contemporary data such as actual data, evidence, etc. Though it is the situation that some concepts are not provable, a lot of times data just doesn't contain the entirety of the concepts being discussed. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B2fLyvsHHaQ -
Description of Logic
W.V. Quine explained logic as first-order logic, which includes mathematics, philosophy, computer science, etc. For example, much of the Principia Mathematica was not considered logic in accordance to W.V. Quine in this work. Within that mindset, he wrote three sub categories on formal logic. Those three are Elementary Logic, Methods of Logic, and Philosophy of Logic. -
Epistemology
Epistemology is the study of knowledge, in regards to the methods, validity, etc. Quine also took a look at traditional epistemology and took a crack at it. His viewpoint is that traditional epistemology doesn't justify the current sciences, and it should be replaced with a new method that taking in certain inputs and product accurate, whole outputs. -
Death
W.V. Quine died at the ripe age of 92 in Boston, MA
