For 10 points, name this philosopher who aimed to eliminate the distinction between analytic and synthetic truths of logical positivism in his "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."
One essay by this thinker uses the hypothetical philosophers McX and Wyman to respond to the problem of nonbeing, and also employs the example of a "round square cupola" to critique a Russellian analysis of names. This thinker defines such words as "Creation" and "Anomaly" in his "Intermittently Philosphical Dictonary" titled Quiddities. In addition to writing "On What There Is," this thinker used the example of a native uttering a foreign word "gavagai" upon seeing a rabbit to expound upon his idea of the indeterminacy of translation, a concept discussed in both Ontological Relativity and Word and Object. For 10 points, name this philosopher who aimed to eliminate the distinction between analytic and synthetic truths of logical positivism in his "Two Dogmas of Empiricism."
One essay by this thinker uses the hypothetical philosophers McX and Wyman to respond to the problem of nonbeing, and also employs the example of a "round square cupola" to critique a Russellian analysis of names.
Willard Van Orman {Quine}