Facts about Willard Van Orman Quine

Born	June 25, 1908
Died	December 25, 2000
Aged	92 years

Summary

Willard Van Orman Quine was a famous author, who lived between June 25, 1908 and December 25, 2000. He/she became 92 years old.

Zodiac:

He/she is born under the zodiac cancer, who is known for Emotion, Diplomatic, Intensity, Impulsive, Selective. Our collection contains 12 quotes who is written / told by Willard.

12 Famous quotes by 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"

Willard Van Orman Quine

"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word"

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"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it"

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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

"To be is to be the value of a variable"

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"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples"

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"One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy"

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"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word"

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"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption"

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"Language is a social art"

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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"

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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"

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