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A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put in three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: ‘What is there?’ It can be answered, moveover, in a word—‘Everything.’ - Willard Van Orman Quine
Attribution: Willard Van Orman Quine (b. 1908), U.S. philosopher. From a Logical Point of View, p. 1, Harvard University Press, second revised edition (1961).

Categories: Metaphysics, Ontology, Philosopher

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