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Marty Robbins
Marty Robbins

Marty Robbins was an influential American country music singer known for his unique musical style and heartfelt performances. His musical career spanned half a century, leaving behind a legacy of classic songs. Born on September 26, 1925, Robbins passed away on December 8, 1982. more

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“The variables of quantification, 'something,' 'nothing,' 'everything,' range over our whole ontology, whatever it may be; and we are convicted of a particular ontological presupposition if, and only if, the alleged presuppositum has to be reckoned among the entities over which our variables range in order to render one of our affirmations true.”

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Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
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“Some have said that the thesis [of indeterminacy] is a consequence of my behaviorism. Some have said that it is a reductio ad absurdum of my behaviorism. I disagree with this second point, but I agree with the first. I hold further that the behaviorism approach is mandatory. In psychology one may or may not be a behaviorist, but in linguistics one has no choice.”

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Book:Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays
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“English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.”

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Book:Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W.V. Quine
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