Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

" In 1996 he was awarded the Kyoto Prize in Arts and Philosophy for his "outstanding contributions to the progress of philosophy in the 20th century by proposing numerous theories based on keen insights in logic epistemology philosophy of science and philosophy of language. "
Quine falls squarely into the analytic philosophy tradition while also being the main proponent of the view that philosophy is not merely conceptual analysis. A recent poll conducted among analytic philosophers named Quine as the fifth most important philosopher of the past two centuries.