Way Quote by Willard Van Orman Quine Download Open image “Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.” — Willard Van Orman Quine ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.5 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Way
Necessity, like electricity, is in ourselves and all things, and no more without us than within us. — Philip James Bailey Copy Share Image
Necessity is the mistress and guide of nature. Necessity is the theme and inventress of nature, her curb and her eternal law. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Upon the whole, necessity is something, that exists in the mind, not in objects; nor is it possible for us ever to form the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
“Necessity is simply a prioritised task, while choices are usually unnecessary and playful in nature.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
Necessity is an evil; but there is no necessity for continuing to live subject to necessity. — Epicurus Copy Share Image
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The line that I am urging as today's conventional wisdom is not a denial of consciousness. It is often called, with more reason, arepudiation… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
The mastery of one's phonemes may be compared to the violinist's mastery of fingering. The violin string lends itself to a continuous gradation of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
The strategy of semantic ascent is that it carries the discussion into a domain where both parties are better agreed on the objects (viz.,… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Scientific method is the way to truth, but it affords, even in principle, no unique definition of truth. Any so-called pragmatic definition of truth… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
Some may find comfort in reflecting that the distinction between an eliminative and an explicative physicalism is unreal. — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The truth seems to be that propaganda on its own cannot force its way into unwilling minds; neither can it inculcate something wholly new;… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
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That we have the vote means nothing. That we use it in the right way means everything. — Lou Henry Hoover Copy Share Image
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The best way to marginalize the Muslim Brotherhood [in Egypt] is in the ballot box, not through arrests and killing people. — Kelly Ayotte Copy Share Image
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