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Willard Van Orman Quine, an Uncommon card
Willard Van Orman Quine was an American logician and philosopher in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".
- Rarity
- Uncommon
- Domain
- History
- ATK
- 78
- DEF
- 65
- Power
- 143
- Wikipedia reads a year
- 86,000
Power 143 (ATK + DEF): stronger than 70 % of WikiCards cards.
Willard Van Orman Quine quiz: 3 questions
Three questions on the Willard Van Orman Quine card, the way WikiCards duels ask them. Pick an answer, the facts are just below.
Find the missing word
Quine was a ______ of logic and set theory.
Answer
teacher. Quine was a teacher of logic and set theory. From the Willard Van Orman Quine article on Wikipedia.
Which of these cards hits hardest (highest ATK)?
Answer
Siege. Siege 82 · Willard Van Orman Quine 78 · Alfred Wegener 74 · Kingdom of Iberia 70 ATK in WikiCards.
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The facts on the card
The card carries these facts from its Wikipedia article.
- He held the Edgar Pierce Chair of Philosophy at Harvard University from 1956 to 1978.
- Quine was a teacher of logic and set theory.
- He was famous for his position that first-order logic is the only kind worthy of the name, and developed his own system of mathematics and set theory, known as New Foundations.
Why it is Uncommon
Rarity in WikiCards follows a year of Wikipedia page views: the most read articles become Epic and Legendary cards. The Willard Van Orman Quine article was read about 86,000 times in a year. ATK comes from the length of the article and DEF from its quality, so this card hits with 78 and blocks with 65: each hit it takes is cut by 26 %.
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Credits
Text : Wikipedia, Willard Van Orman Quine (revision), CC BY-SA 4.0. Photo : Maryclaire Quine, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons.
