"We do not learn first what to talk……" — Willard Van Orman Quine

"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."

— Willard Van Orman Quine

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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.
Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump…
Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least…
It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does…
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation
Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praise-worthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
Just as the introduction of the irrational numbers ... is a convenient myth [which] simplifies the laws of arithmetic ...…
For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are…

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