"It is one of the consolations of philosophy……" — Willard Van Orman Quine
"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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28 Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump…
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Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
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Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least…
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Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
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Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
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Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
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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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Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ...…
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For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are…
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Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and…
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