Author: 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.

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

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.

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

Language is a social art.

Language is a social art.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

To be is to be the value of a variable.

To be is to be the value of a variable.

- Willard Van Orman Quine

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