Confusion of sign and object is original sin coeval with the word.

Science is not a substitute for common sense, but an extension of it.

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.

For me the problem of induction is a problem about the world: a problem of how we, as we are now (by our present scientific lights), in a world we never made, should stand better than random, or coin-tossing chances changes of coming out right when we predict by inductions. . . .

Language is conceived in sin and science is its redemption.

Meaning is what essence becomes when it is divorced from the object of reference and wedded to the word.