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"
"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it"
"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word"
"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump"
"To be is to be the value of a variable"
"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples"
"One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy"
"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word"
"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption"
"Language is a social art"
"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"
"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word"
