Willard van Orman Quine: Quotes about reason

Willard van Orman Quine was American philosopher and logician. Explore interesting quotes on sense.
Willard van Orman Quine: 50 quotes3 likes

“Nonbeing must in some sense be, otherwise what is it that there is not? This tangled doctrine might be nicknamed Plato's beard; historically it has proved tough, frequently dulling the edge of Occam's razor.”

Willard van Orman Quine

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

“Wyman's overpopulated universe is in many ways unlovely. It offends the aesthetic sense of us who have a taste for desert landscapes.”

Willard van Orman Quine

"On What There Is", p. 4. a humorous comment on the idea "unactualized possible".
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)

“My countersuggestion, issuing essentially from Carnap's doctrine of the physical world in the Aufbau, is that our statements about the external world face the tribunal of sense experience not individually but only as a corporate body.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Les Deux Dogmes de l'empirisme