This philosopher advances the work of David Hume in a 1969 essay to promote a form of ‘naturalized epistemology' and he suggests famously, "to be is to be the value of a variable," in his collection From a Logical Point of View.
This thinker utilizes Paul Valery's quote "A difficulty is a light, an insurmountable difficulty is a sun," in order to motivate his definition of ‘anomaly' in a work subtitled, "An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary." In his doctoral dissertation, this man delineates "six primitive" types, in an analysis of a theory of sequences as presented in Russell and Whitehead's Principia Mathematica. In one work, he generates an existential generalization by replacing (*) ‘Xanthippe' with the ‘wife of Socrates' in order to dispense with definite descriptors. This philosopher advances the work of David Hume in a 1969 essay to promote a form of ‘naturalized epistemology' and he suggests famously, "to be is to be the value of a variable," in his collection From a Logical Point of View. For 10 points, name this Harvard philosopher author of Word and Object and "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."
This thinker utilizes Paul Valery's quote "A difficulty is a light, an insurmountable difficulty is a sun," in order to motivate his definition of ‘anomaly' in a work subtitled, "An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary.
Willard Van Orman {Quine}