Orman

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    One man’s antinomy is another man’s falsidical paradox, give or take a couple of thousand years.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    Theory may be deliberate, as in a chapter on chemistry, or it may be second nature, as in the immemorial doctrine of ordinary enduring middle-sized physical objects.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)