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    • “Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irreducible posits comparable, epistemologically, to the gods of Homer . . .
    • “Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. ” ― W.V. Quine.
    • “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.”
    • “Language is a social art.” ― Willard Van Orman Quine, Word and Object.
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    From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays

    Willard van Orman Quine. From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays(1953). Harper and Row, New York 1. How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard. 1.1. "On What There Is" 1. Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there...

    A fancifully fancyless medium of unvarnished news.
    Creatures inveterately wrong in their inductions have a pathetic but praiseworthy tendency to die before reproducing their kind.
    Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.
    "Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.

    It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.

  3. Willard Van Orman Quine (/ k w aɪ n /; known to his friends as "Van"; June 25, 1908 – December 25, 2000) was an American philosopher and logician in the analytic tradition, recognized as "one of the most influential philosophers of the twentieth century".

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  5. Science Quotes by Willard Van Orman Quine (11 quotes) (source) As an empiricist I continue to think of the conceptual scheme of science as a tool, ultimately, for predicting future experience in the light of past experience.

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