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We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
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Necessity resides in the way we talk about things, not in the things we talk about.
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Our talk of external things, our very notion of things, is just a conceptual apparatus that helps us to foresee and control the triggerings of our sensory receptors in the light of previous triggering of our sensory receptors.
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Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work—that goes on, it adds up.
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Willard van Orman Quine
Born:
June 25, 1908
Died:
December 25, 2000
(aged 92)
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