This thinker’s name is humorously used as a verb meaning, “To deny resolutely the existence…of something real or significant.” For 10 points each:
[10h] Name this philosopher whose surname is also used in recreational computing thanks to Douglas Hofstadter, who defined it as a phrase in quotes followed by the phrase itself.
ANSWER: Willard Van Orman Quine [accept quining]
[10e] “Quining” is used to argue that a paradox named for this action doesn’t derive from direct self-reference. That paradox is created by claiming to be performing this act of false assertion.
ANSWER: lying [or liar’s paradox; accept word forms such as being a liar; accept synonyms such as fibbing]
[10m] In the first sense of “quining,” Quine “quined” this field in a paper titled for it “Naturalized.” Since 1963, much work in this field has focused on Gettier problems.
ANSWER: epistemology [accept “Epistemology Naturalized”]
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