


A curious thing
about the ontological problem
is its simplicity.
It can be put
into three
Anglo-Saxon monosyllables:
'What is there?'
It can be answered,
moreover,
in a word--
'Everything'--
and everyone will accept
this answer
as true.
-WVO Quine, "On What There Is"
I didn't come up with the idea of "Quine as Poet," but I like the idea; and I like Quine better than Weiderkehr in any case.
I'm even more pleased to learn that Quine is a noun.
2 comments:
So I'm still unclear as to why the quine is named after Quine?
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