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Willard Van Orman Quine
American
June 25, 1908
Philosopher
Language is a social art.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
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Value
Variable
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Man
Another
Book
Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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'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
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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.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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Nature
World
Human
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
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Change
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