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From: HenHanna@dev.null (HenHanna)
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Subject: Re: WV Quine and English Usage
Date: Sat, 30 Mar 2024 06:14:23 +0000
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by: HenHanna - Sat, 30 Mar 2024 06:14 UTC

henh...@gmail.com wrote:

> On Monday, July 4, 2022 at 2:48:29 PM UTC-7, benl...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
>> On 5/07/2022 2:35 a.m., henh...@gmail.com wrote:
>> >
>> > https://playback.fm/born-in-city/akron-oh
>> >
>> > The Most Famous Person Born in Akron, Ohio is Willard Van Orman Quine.
>> >
>> > FAME METER (40/100)
>> >
>> >
>> > ------- what does he mean to the average person ?
>> >
>> > or to someone who likes books, reading, ... ?
>> >
>> > or to someone who 's interested in English- Usage ?
>> >

>> Nothing.
>> He was a philosopher and logician.
>> To people interested in "confirmation holism and ontological relativity"
>> he was probably quite important.
>> He had quite a bit to say about language, so linguists were aware of
>> him. But about English- Usage? Nothing.
>> On the other hand...
>> A computer program whose output is its own source code is called a
>> "quine" after Quine. This usage was introduced by Douglas Hofstadter in
>> his 1979 book, Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid.
>> Quine is a recurring character in the webcomic "Existential Comics".
>> Quine was selected for inclusion in the Committee for Skeptical
>> Inquiry's "Pantheon of Skeptics", which celebrates contributors to the
>> cause of scientific skepticism.
>> Quine was mentioned in the Peacock series A.P. Bio.
>> (Thanks Wiki)

> https://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/29/arts/w-v-quine-philosopher-who-analyzed-language-and-reality-dies-at-92.html
> >>> W. V. Quine, a logician and Harvard philosophy professor whose analysis of language and its relation to reality made him one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, died on Monday at a hospital in Boston, where he lived. He was 92.

> ----------- the average person may have never heard of him but

> still Quine may have influenced the average person's interest in language
> (e.g. AUE)
> (e.g. how Janus-words are so popular and talked-about)

> and what kind of humor is enjoyed by the masses ------- e.g. the TV show Big Bang Theory

> https://xkcd.com/785/ ------- the 3rd panel is M.C. Quine

https://xkcd.com/1306/

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Re: WV Quine and English Usage	HenHanna