We can applaud the state lottery as a public subsidy of intelligence, for it yields public income that is calculated to lighten the tax burden of us prudent abstainers at the expense of the benighted masses of wishful thinkers.
Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes
Uncritical semantics is the myth of a museum in which the exhibits are meanings and the words are labels. To switch languages is to change the labels.
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| Birth: | 25th June, 1908 |
| Death: | 25th December, 2000 |
| Nationality: | American |
| Profession: | Logician, Philosopher |
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