"Beneath the uniformity that unites us in communication there is a chaotic personal diversity of connections, and, for each of us, the connections cont...

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Language is a social art.
More Willard van Orman Quine quotes
"Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the se...
"Believing is a disposition. We could tire ourselves out thinking, if we put our minds to it, but believing takes no toll.
"Physical objects are conceptually imported into the situation as convenient intermediaries not by definition in terms of experience, but simply as irr...
"No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.
"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
"It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.