Consequence Argument

Famous quotes containing the words consequence and/or argument:

“Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.”
—Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)