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Quotation by Willard Van Orman Quine
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"Carnap and Logical Truth" The Ways of Paradox and Other Essays (1966)"Epistemology Naturalized" Columbia University Press (1969)From a Logical Point of View Harvard University Press second, revised edition (1961)From a Logical Point of View Harvard University Press, second revised edition (1961)"Identity, Ostension and Hypostasis" originally appeared in The Journal of Philosophy (1950)Related Subjects
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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.
Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908), U.S. philosopher. From a Logical Point of View, p. 16, Harvard University Press second, revised edition (1961).
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