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04 Apr Words to Ponder #18

Posted at 21:34h in I Like This, Language, Play, What's New, Words to Ponder 0 Comments

What is under consideration is not the ontological state of affairs, but the ontological commitments of a discourse. What there is does not in general depend on one’s use of language, but what one says there is does. American philosopher W.V.O. Quine (1908-2000) ...