Drawing on the results of logic, linguistics and psychology, Mr Quine now sought to update these accounts.

ECONOMIST: Willard Quine

Although Mr Quine has no important theorem to his name he wrote on mathematical logic with ingenuity and wit.

ECONOMIST: Willard Quine

Willard Quine's early work was in the field of mathematical logic and set theory, the subject of half a dozen of his 23 books.

ECONOMIST: Willard Quine

"The High Street is going to look a very different place in a year's time, " said Adrian Quine, director of the British Online Retailing Association.

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Mr Quine developed a theory of language according to which truths of fact blend into truths of meaning, so that there is no absolute distinction between the two.

ECONOMIST: Willard Quine