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

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

We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
Willard Van Orman Quine

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.
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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

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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Art, Language, Social

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Art, Language, Social