Willard van Orman Quine Quote

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula "To be is to be the value of a variable"; this formula serves rather, conversely, in testing the conformity of a given remark or doctrine to a prior ontological standard.


"On What There Is" - From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)


How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula To be is to be the value of a...

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula To be is to be the value of a...

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula To be is to be the value of a...

How are we to adjudicate among rival ontologies? Certainly the answer is not provided by the semantical formula To be is to be the value of a...