Quote by Quine, Willard Van Orman
"The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography to the profoundest laws of atomic physics, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges."
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"To be is to be the value of a variable."
"The problem of induction is to justify the rules by which we project unobserved instances from observed ones."
"Ontology is what one says exists; ideology is how one says one determines what exists."
"There is no fact of the matter about how language actually carves up the world."