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Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Philosophy of science is philosophy enough.

Philosophy of science is philosophy enough.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.

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.

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: 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.

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 quotes: Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

One man's antinomy is another man's falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Language is a social art.

Language is a social art.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

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

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

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.

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: Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation

Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: To be is to be the value of a bound variable.

To be is to be the value of a bound variable.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Unscientific man is beset by a deplorable desire to have been right. The scientist is distinguished by a desire to be right.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.

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 quotes: To be is to be the value of a variable.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

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.

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: Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

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.

'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: Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.

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.

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 word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: How many possible men are there in that doorway?

How many possible men are there in that doorway?

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.

Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.

Willard Van Orman Quine quotes: Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.