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Willard Van Orman Quine [1908-2000] American

Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century."

Brainy, Science

Quote	Tags	Rank
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.	Science	101
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.		102
To be is to be the value of a variable.	Brainy	103
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.		104
Language is a social art.		105
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.		106
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.		107
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.		108
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.		109
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.		110
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.		111
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.		112

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