It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it. (Willard van Orman Quine)

It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.

Willard van Orman Quine

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