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Physical Objects Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine
- Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical objects are postulated…
- 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,…
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- As sounds in a musical composition can be used not to express physical objects but ideas, emotions, harmonies, rhythmic orders and most… — Wynn Bullock
- Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ... so physical… — Willard Van Orman Quine
- I personally think intellectual property is an oxymoron. Physical objects have a completely different natural economy than intellectual goods. It's a tricky… — John Perry Barlow
- By the end of this decade, computers will disappear as distinct physical objects, with displays built in our eyeglasses, and electronics woven… — Ray Kurzweil
- Holding onto and manipulating physical objects is one of the things we learn earliest and do the most. It should not be… — George Lakoff
- A master of happiness will appreciate what he or she has while they have them and the moment any specific thing is… — Zelig Pliskin
- Since man does not create physical matter, those who handle material objects in the production process are not producers in that sense.… — Thomas Sowell
- As we divest ourselves of once familiar physical objects - digitize and dematerialize - we approach a 'Star Trek' future in which… — James Wolcott
- Apple enjoys 'Harry Potter'-like adoration and queues because it sells physical objects, limited by the pace of assembly lines in China. To… — Douglas Rushkoff
- Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible… — Willard Van Orman Quine
- A chaos of mind and body - a time for weeping at sunsets and at the glamour of moonlight - a confusion… — T.H. White
- I think that modern physics has definitely decided in favor of Plato. In fact the smallest units of matter are not physical… — Werner Heisenberg