Van Orman

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    The variables of quantification, ‘something,’ ‘nothing,’ ‘everything,’ range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    I’m a junkie. I like drugs, I like the whole lifestyle, but it just didn’t pay off.
    —Gus Van Sant, U.S. screenwriter, and Dan Yost. Bob Hughes (Matt Dillon)

    [T]here is no breaking out of the intentional vocabulary by explaining its members in other terms.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)