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Language is a social art.

Language is a social art.

Willard Van Orman Quine
Art, Language, Social
Willard Van Orman Quine, Dagfinn Føllesdal, Douglas B. Quine (2008). “Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist: And Other Essays”, p.289, Harvard University Press

No two of us learn our language alike, nor, in a sense, does any finish learning it while he lives.

Willard Van Orman Quine
Two, Doe, Language
Willard Van Orman Quine, Patricia S. Churchland, Dagfinn Føllesdal (2013). “Word and Object”, p.12, MIT Press

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

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Redemption, Language, Sin
Willard Van Orman Quine (1973). “The roots of reference”

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.

Willard Van Orman Quine
Museums, Labels, Language

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