Quote by Quine, Willard Van Orman
"Posits are justified by their utility in our overall system of beliefs."
"Posits are justified by their utility in our overall system of beliefs."
"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."