Quine

Famous quotes containing the word quine:

“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Language is a social art.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“If there is a case for mental events and mental states, it must be that the positing of them, like the positing of molecules, has some indirect systematic efficacy in the development of theory.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)