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Willard Van Orman Quine was an American philosopher born on June 25, 1908. He is known for his work in logic and philosophy of language, making significant contributions to analytic philosophy. Quine challenged traditional views on meaning and reference, influencing many areas of philosophy. He published several important works and is remembered as one of the leading philosophers of the 20th century. He passed away on December 25, 2000.
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"It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it."

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"Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption."

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"Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word."

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"To be is to be the value of a variable."

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"'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word."

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"The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples."

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"Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word."

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"We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it."

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"Language is a social art."

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"One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy."

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"Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels."

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"Physics investigates the essential nature of the world, and biology describes a local bump. Psychology, human psychology, describes a bump on the bump."

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