Quote by Quine, Willard Van Orman
"Belief in abstract objects commits us to an opulent ontology that simpler theories can avoid."
"Belief in abstract objects commits us to an opulent ontology that simpler theories can avoid."
"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."