The Object

Famous quotes containing the word object:

“Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.”
—Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908)

“Language disguises the thought; so that from the external form of the clothes one cannot infer the form of the thought they clothe, because the external form of the clothes is constructed with quite another object than to let the form of the body be recognized.”
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)