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To define an expression is, paradoxically speaking, to explain how to get along without it. To define is to eliminate.
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willard-van-orman-quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因 名人名言
Language is a social art.
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The familiar material objects may not be all that is real, but they are admirable examples.
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willard-van-orman-quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因 名人名言
One man's observation is another man's closed book or flight of fancy.
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willard-van-orman-quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因 名人名言
'Ouch' is not independent of social training. One has only to prick a foreigner to appreciate that it is an English word.
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Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.
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willard-van-orman-quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因 名人名言
We do not learn first what to talk about and then what to say about it.
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willard-van-orman-quine 威拉德·冯·奥曼·蒯因 名人名言
Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.
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Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.
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