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A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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Life is what the least of us make the most of us feel the least of us make the most of.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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To be is to be the value of a variable.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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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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Willard Van Orman Quine
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It is within science itself, and not in some prior philosophy, that reality is to be identified and described.
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Willard Van Orman Quine (Theories and Things)
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Students of the heavens are separable into astronomers and astrologers as readily as are the minor domestic ruminants into sheep and goats, but the separation of philosophers into sages and cranks seems to be more sensitive to frames of reference.
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Willard Van Orman Quine
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The word 'definition' has come to have a dangerously reassuring sound, owing no doubt to its frequent occurrence in logical and mathematical writings.