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Our acceptance of an ontology is, I think, similar in principle to our acceptance of a scientific theory, say a system of physics; we adopt, at least insofar as we are reasonable, the simplest conceptual scheme into which the disordered fragments of raw experience can be fitted and arranged.

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Entification begins at arm's length; the points of condensation in the primordial conceptual scheme are things glimpsed, not glimpses.

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We must not leap to the fatalistic conclusion that we are stuck with the conceptual scheme that we grew up in. We can change it, bit by bit, plank by plank, though meanwhile there is nothing to carry us along but the evolving conceptual scheme itself. The philosopher's task was well compared by Neurath to that of a mariner who must rebuild his ship on the open sea.

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I philosophize from the vantage point only of our own provincial conceptual scheme and scientific epoch, true; but I know no better.

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Born: June 25, 1908
Died: December 25, 2000 (aged 92)
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