Quote by Quine, Willard Van Orman
"Identity criteria for objects are conventional, not discovered in nature itself."
"Identity criteria for objects are conventional, not discovered in nature itself."
"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."