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Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Willard Van Orman Quine
Age: 92 †
Born: 1908
Born: June 25
Died: 2000
Died: December 25
Analytic Philosopher
Epistemologist
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Logician
Mathematician
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Philosopher Of Language
Philosopher Of Science
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Akron
Ohio
W. V. Quine
Mathematics
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A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.
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Set theory in sheep's clothing.
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The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
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At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.
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Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.
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Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
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Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name it is to these that words apply first and foremost.
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I have been accused of denying consciousness but I am not conscious of having done so.
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Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
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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.
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If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, hassome indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.
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Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.
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We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
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Language is a social art.
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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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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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The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
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