Orman

Famous quotes containing the word orman:

    One man’s observation is another man’s closed book or flight of fancy.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    Analyze theory-building how we will, we all must start in the middle. Our conceptual firsts are middle-sized, middle-distanced objects, and our introduction to them and to everything comes midway in the cultural evolution of the race.
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

    A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moveover, in a word—‘Everything.’
    —Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)