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Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine

American Philosopher

Born: Jun 25, 1908

Died: Dec 25, 2000

Examples Familiar Hinge Nature Object Word

Related authors: Allan Bloom Deepak Chopra George Herbert Mead John Dewey Judith Butler Lysander Spooner Robert M. Pirsig William James

To be is to be the value of a variable. Willard Van Orman Quine

Brainy Value Variable

The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples. Willard Van Orman Quine

Admirable Examples Objects Material Real Familiar May

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

Nature Physics World Biology Local Bump Essential Human Psychology

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption. Willard Van Orman Quine

Science Language Sin Conceived Redemption

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

Change Words Myth Labels Semantics Which Meanings Languages Switch Museum

'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

Training Word Independent Only Foreigner Social English Appreciate

Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word. Willard Van Orman Quine

Word Confusion Sign Object Sin Original Original Sin

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word. Willard Van Orman Quine

Word Object Divorced Becomes Reference Essence Meaning

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