Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes & Sayings
12 most famous Willard Van Orman Quine quotes and sayings (philosopher). These are the first 10 quotes we have.
“Language is a social art.”
“One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.”
“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.”
“Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.”
“Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump.”
“To be is to be the value of a 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.”
“The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.”
“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
“'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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