Question

This thinker addressed the problem of empty names by asking “What is there?” and replying “Everything.” This thinker (10[1])claimed that “to be is to be the value of a bound variable.” Otto Neurath (“NOY-rot”) inspired the title of this thinker’s book Web of Belief, as well as this thinker’s (10[1])use of a metaphor for improving conceptual schemes like a sailor fixing a boat. This thinker proposed an experiment about a person who sees a rabbit and says “gavagai” (10[2]-5[1])to illustrate the “inscrutability of reference” and the “indeterminacy of translation.” A paper by this author that attacks the analytic/synthetic distinction (10[1])opens with the statements “No unmarried man is married” and “No bachelor is married.” For 10 points, name this philosopher who wrote Word and Object and “Two Dogmas of Empiricism.” ■END■ (0[6])

ANSWER: W. V. O. Quine [or Willard van Orman Quine]
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