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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Set theory in sheep’s clothing (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
‘Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Ouch’ is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato’s beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam’s razor (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Wyman’s overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
My position is a naturalistic one; I see philosophy not as an a priori propaedeutic or groundwork for science, but as continuous with science. I see philosophy and science as in the same boat--a boat which, to revert to Neurath’s figure as I so often do, we can rebuild only at sea while staying afloat in it. There is no external vantage point, no first philosophy (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
To be is to be the value of a variable (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Language is a social art (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
One man’s antinomy is another man’s falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference (Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes)
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