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Maggie Quine of Kilgore, Texas, was just as shocked with what she had to clarify to L.A. teens visiting her hometown.
From Los Angeles Times • Aug. 7, 2024
She and Quine also adopted a son named Timothy in 1946.
From Fox News • Jan. 14, 2021
Rovelli ably brings in the thoughts of philosophers Martin Heidegger and Edmund Husserl, sociologist Émile Durkheim and psychologist William James, along with physicist-favourite philosophers such as Hilary Putnam and Willard Van Orman Quine.
From Nature • Apr. 15, 2018
The loose puck sat in the crease with Gruabuer’s head turned in the opposite direction, and Alan Quine swatted it in 2:41 into the second period.
From Washington Post • Jan. 31, 2017
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
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