Answers Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine

To be is to be the value of a variable.

— Willard Van Orman Quine

The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“In provisionally characterizing the object which serves as the theme of our investigation (the Being of entities, or the meaning of Being in general),…

— Martin Heidegger

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

— W.V. Quine

A semantic definition of a particular set of command types, then, is a rule for constructing, for any command of one of these types,…

— Robert W. Floyd

I don't know what ontological means... I barely graduated high school, and I have never heard that word in conversation.

— Lou Barlow

The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.

— Bertrand Russell

“State philosophy reposes on a double identity: of the thinking subject, and of the concepts it creates and to which it lends its own…

— Gilles Deleuze

“Our conduct of the ontological investigation in the first and second parts opens up for us at the same time a view of the…

— Martin Heidegger

“What is necessary is that epistemology, instead of being the pre-condition for ontology, should grow in it and with it, being at the same…

— Étienne Gilson

The words that we use I think are symbolic of the values that we hold.

— Angela Duckworth

“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly termed, the…

— John Stuart Mill