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Willard Van Orman Quine June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000

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    College

    attended Oberlin College in Ohio to receive his bachelor's degree to major in Mathematics with honors reading in mathematical philosophy and attended Harvard University to receive his Ph.D. in Philosophy. this is where he did his dissertation on Whitehead and Russell’s Principia Mathematica.

  • First book

    Quine returned to Harvard collage to take up his junior fellowship. he first book was published A System of Logistics. Between this time to the time he started his service Quine's research was mainly on logic although always with a philosophical motivation.
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    World War II

    Willard Van Orman Quine reached the rank of lieutenant commander in the United States Navy after four years decrypting messages from German submarines off the coast.
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    Published Books

    1953: published From a Logical Point of View.
    1960: published Word and Object.
    1963: published Set Theory and its Logic.
    1966: published Ways of Paradox.
    1969: published Ontological Relativity and Other Essays.
    1974: published The Roots of Reference.
    1981: published Theories and Things.
    1990: published Pursuit of Truth.
    1995: published From Stimulus to Science.

  • Ontological Relativity

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