Quine

American  

[kwahyn] / kwaɪn /

noun

1. Willard van Orman 1908–2000, U.S. philosopher and logician.

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Quine ¹ British  

/ kwaɪn /

noun

1. Willard van Orman. 1908–2000, US philosopher. His works include Word and Object (1960), Philosophy of Logic (1970), The Roots of Reference (1973), and The Logic of Sequences (1990)

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quine ² British  

/ kwəɪn /

noun

1. a variant of quean

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Example Sentences

Although Rojas and Quine didn’t need a passport for their trips, they might as well have traveled to a foreign land.

From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024

Frank Quine, 84, assistant dean and development director of the University of Maryland’s journalism school from 1988 to 2010, died Oct.

From Washington Post • Dec. 7, 2021

According to Valderrama, Peters was seriously considering returning to her goal of studying medicine when she was cast in 1942’s "Tish" alongside Richard Quine.

From Fox News • Jan. 14, 2021

You bestow such vivid, unusual names — Cormoran Strike, Leonora Quine, Lula Landry, Daniel Chard, “Digger” Malley — on your characters.

From New York Times • Sep. 16, 2018

The thesis is misnamed, because, as it is usually formulated, Duhem did not hold it and Quine abandoned it, but it is the fundamental conceptual underpinning of much modern history and philosophy of science.

From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton