Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes & Quotations
Name:
Willard Van Orman Quine
Birth day:
June 25
Birth year:
1908

  • 1
    Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
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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. Willard Van Orman Quine
  • 3
    Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. Willard Van Orman Quine
  • 4
    Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. Willard Van Orman Quine
  • 5
    One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy. Willard Van Orman Quine
  • 6
    'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word. Willard Van Orman Quine
  • 7
    Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump. Willard Van Orman Quine
  • 8
    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
  • 9
    We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it. Willard Van Orman Quine

 

 

 

 

 

 

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