Famous quotes containing the words james and/or van:
“We are doomed to cling to a life even while we find it unendurable.”
—William James (1842–1910)
“The three main medieval points of view regarding universals are designated by historians as realism, conceptualism, and nominalism. Essentially these same three doctrines reappear in twentieth-century surveys of the philosophy of mathematics under the new names logicism, intuitionism, and formalism.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)