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Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes

June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000

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Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time. Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the..."
Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Willard Van Orman Quine
Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . . For my part I do, qua lay physicist, believe in physical objects and not in Homer's gods; and I consider it a scientific error to believe otherwise. But in point of epistemological footing, the physical objects and the gods differ only in degree and not in kind. Both sorts... Willard Van Orman Quine
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. Willard Van Orman Quine
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels. Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to..."
'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
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the..."
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "Language is a social art."
Language is a social art. Willard Van Orman Quine
A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true. Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight..."
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. Willard Van Orman Quine
Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are 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
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say..."
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it. Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine quote: "Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the..."
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. Willard Van Orman Quine
To mention Boston we use 'Boston' or a synonym, and to mention 'Boston' we use ' 'Boston' ' or a synonym. ' 'Boston' ' contains six letters and just one pair of quotation marks; 'Boston' contains six letters and no quotation marks; and Boston contains some 800,000 people. Willard Van Orman Quine

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