Willard van Orman Quine Quotes on Philosophy

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  1. Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.

  2. To be is to be the value of a bound variable.

    #2 Attribution disputed; shown as originally published.

  3. Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.

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