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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard Van Orman Quine

Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908), U.S. philosopher, logician. Word and Object, p. 190 (1960).

On the view that by reducing a concept to what is already clear, we license its use.

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