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Quotes by "Willard Van Orman Quine"

Life is agid, life is fulgid. Life is what the least of us make most of us feel the least of us make the most of. Life is a burgeoning, a quickening of the dim primordial urge in the murky wastes of time.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Tags: inspirational-quotes
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.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Tags: does, benefit, philosophy, how
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Tags: original, sign, confusion, sin
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Tags: which, museum, words, change
To be is to be the value of a variable.
— Willard Van Orman Quine
Tags: brainy, value
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