“Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.” BeliefTheoryLogicImplicationsTexture Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
“Unlike Descartes, we own and use our beliefs of the moment, even in the midst of philosophizing, until by what is vaguely called scientific method we change them here and there for the better. Within our own total evolving doctrine, we can judge truth as earnestly and absolutely as can be, subject to correction, but that goes without saying.” MomentsUseTruthScienceBeliefSubjectsJudgingMethodDoctrineEvolveMidstHere And ThereCorrectionsScientific Method Book:Word and Object Source: Word and Object
“The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of atomic physics or even of pure mathematics and logic, is a man-made fabric which impinges on experience only along the edges. Or, to change the figure, total science is like a field of force whose boundary conditions are experience.” MenMadeMatterBeliefForceConditionsFiguresFieldsPureLogicMathematicsEdgesPhysicsBoundariesFabricCasualGeographyTotalityGeography And History Author:Willard Van Orman Quine
