Quine

Famous quotes containing the word quine:

“Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Linguistically, and hence conceptually, the things in sharpest focus are the things that are public enough to be talked of publicly, common and conspicuous enough to be talked of often, and near enough to sense to be quickly identified and learned by name; it is to these that words apply first and foremost.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Irrefragability, thy name is mathematics.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)