"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is……" — Willard Van Orman Quine
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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28 Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine
Willard Van Orman Quine has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does…
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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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Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.
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Apart from the fact that your physical ability starts to decline, I also think someone in their fifties being childlike…
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Habit, if not resisted, soon becomes necessity.
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The soul becomes dyed with the color of its thoughts.
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Money's important. Everyone cares about money. And when you don't have money, money becomes the overriding obsession of your life.
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When the soul, through its own fault... becomes rooted in a pool of pitch-black, evil smelling water, it produces nothing…
— Teresa of Avila
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I came to the conclusion months ago, and I said it to members of Congress, that the only way people…
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A house must be built on solid foundations if it is to last. The same principle applies to man, otherwise…
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At each increase of knowledge, as well as on the contrivance of every new tool, human labour becomes abridged.
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In turning from the smaller instruments in frequent use to the larger and more important machines, the economy arising from…
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There is, however, another purpose to which academies contribute. When they consist of a limited number of persons, eminent for…
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In today's interdependent world, a threat to one becomes a menace to all. And no state can defeat these challenges…
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