Analytic Philosophy, Logic, and Philosophy of LanguageAmerican
To be is to be the value of a variable.
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician and one of the major figures of twentieth-century analytic philosophy. By criticizing the analytic/synthetic distinction, defending confirmational holism, naturalized epistemology, and the theory of ontological commitment, he had a profound influence on the philosophy of language, logic, metaphysics, and the philosophy of science.