Logic Quine

Famous quotes containing the words logic and/or quine:

“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

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