Full Idea
Quine has aimed at a naturalistic and empirical world-view, and claims that first-order logic and set theory provide a framework sufficient for the articulation of our knowledge of the world.
Gist of Idea
Quine's naturalistic and empirical view is based entirely on first-order logic and set theory
Source
report of Willard Quine (Word and Object [1960]) by Thomas Mautner - Penguin Dictionary of Philosophy p.465
Book Reference
Mautner,Thomas: 'Dictionary of Philosophy' [Penguin 1997], p.465
A Reaction
Consequently he is fairly eliminativist about meaning and mental states, and does without universals in his metaphysics. An impressively puritanical enterprise, taking Ockham's Razor to the limit, but I find it hard to swallow.