Quote by Quine, Willard Van Orman
"We cannot talk about the world without using language, and we cannot step outside language to verify our claims."
More from Quine, Willard Van Orman
"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."