No entity without identity.

Philosophers
Willard Van Orman Quine
American logician (1908-2000), Harvard's Edgar Pierce Professor 1956-1978. Two Dogmas of Empiricism dismantled the analytic-synthetic split; Word and Object launched the indeterminacy of translation and naturalism.
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Source: Theories and Things (Harvard University Press, 1981)Verified
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