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Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
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Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.
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Nature
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Human
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Physics
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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Confusion
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Word
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Original
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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Philosophy
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Benefit
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Concept
Language is a social art.
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Art
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Social
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Language
Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
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Science
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Language
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Sin
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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Word
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Meaning
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Object
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
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Book
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Another
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Flight
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
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Training
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Word
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Social
The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
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Real
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May
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Material
To be is to be the value of a variable.
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Value
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Variable
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.
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Change
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Words
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Myth
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
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Biography
Born:
June 25
, 1908
Died:
December 25
, 2000
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