Willard van Orman Quine: Quotes about the truth

Willard van Orman Quine was American philosopher and logician. Explore interesting quotes on truth.
Willard van Orman Quine: 50   quotes 3   likes

“At root what is needed for scientific inquiry is just receptivity to data, skill in reasoning, and yearning for truth. Admittedly, ingenuity can help too.”

Willard van Orman Quine

S.4
The Web of Belief (1970)

Truth , Help

“Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.”

Willard van Orman Quine

Philosophy of Logic (1970)
1970s

Truth , Tree

“Modern empiricism has been conditioned in large part by two dogmas. One is a belief in some fundamental cleavage between truths which are analytic, or grounded in meanings independently of matters of fact, and truths which are synthetic, or grounded in fact. The other dogma is reductionism: the belief that each meaningful statement is equivalent to some logical construct upon terms which refer to immediate experience. Both dogmas, I shall argue, are ill-founded. One effect of abandoning them is, as we shall see, a blurring of the supposed boundary between speculative metaphysics and natural science. Another effect is a shift toward pragmatism.”

Willard van Orman Quine Two Dogmas of Empiricism

"Two dogmas of Empiricism"
From a Logical Point of View: Nine Logico-Philosophical Essays (1953)

Truth , Science , Parting , Nature