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The 18 pages that link to Willard Van Orman Quine, each with the reason it gives.

• Analytic philosophyRelated: His critiques unsettled assumptions that had shaped mid-century analytic philosophy.

• Thomas KuhnRelated: Quine’s account of theoretical holism provides a philosophical parallel to Kuhn’s framework-dependent science.

• Rudolf CarnapCompared with: Quine’s objections targeted assumptions central to Carnap’s account of language and empirical knowledge.

• Analytic–synthetic distinctionRelated: His critique challenged the idea that analytic truths have a clear, independent definition.

• A priori and a posterioriRelated: Quine questioned whether any truths are insulated from revision by experience.

• UnderdeterminationRelated: His work extended Duhem's point into a broad account of how evidence bears on theories.

• Daniel DennettRelated: Quine’s naturalistic philosophy influenced Dennett’s approach to mind and scientific explanation.

• Scientific naturalismRelated: His naturalized epistemology gave scientific inquiry a central role in studying knowledge.

• FallibilismRelated: His holistic view portrays even central beliefs as revisable under pressure from experience.

• Hilary PutnamCompared with: Putnam shared Quine’s naturalistic ambitions but resisted several consequences of Quine’s holism.

• Duhem–Quine thesisRelated: Quine extended a related holism from physical theory to knowledge more broadly.

• Metaphysical naturalismRelated: Quine argued that philosophy should operate within the scientific account of the world.

• A. J. AyerCompared with: Quine’s critique targeted a distinction central to Ayer’s early account of knowledge.

• Ad hoc hypothesisRelated: Quine’s holism helps explain how a theory can be preserved by altering surrounding assumptions.

• Identity of indiscernibles (metaphysics)Related: His approach to identity and predicates clarifies the assumptions needed to state the principle.

• New FoundationsRelated: Quine introduced New Foundations in 1937 as a revised approach to set theory.

• Platonic realismCompared with: His criterion of ontological commitment presses realists to justify belief in abstract entities.

• MetaphilosophyRelated: His naturalized epistemology directly recasts philosophy’s relation to empirical science.