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Philosophy of science is philosophy enough.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
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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.
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Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
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The lore of our fathers is a fabric of sentences. A pale gray lore, black with fact and white with convention.
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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.
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Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
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One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.
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Language is a social art.
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Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
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The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
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To be is to be the value of a bound variable.
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Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.
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Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
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Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.
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Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
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I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.
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It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
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'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
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Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
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The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.
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We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
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Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.
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Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
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Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
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How many possible men are there in that doorway?
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One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
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Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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