Famous quotes containing the words stevens and/or plurality:
“We enjoy the ithy oonts and long-haired
Plomets, as the Herr Gott
Enjoys his comets.”
—Wallace Stevens (1879–1955)
“Treating ‘water’ as a name of a single scattered object is not intended to enable us to dispense with general terms and plurality of reference. Scatter is in fact an inconsequential detail.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)