Variables Declared

Famous quotes containing the words variables and/or declared:

“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 have declared that patience is never more than patient. I too have declared, that I who am not patient am patient.”
—Gertrude Stein (1874–1946)