Quining Quine: On the Historicity of Quine
Quine was not real
As has been attributed to the fictitious human who some call Quine, one ought not multiply entities beyond necessity. If we can dispense with an entity while explaining all the relevant data, so should we. In this case we can, and that entity is Quine himself. We need not invoke Quine to explain any data, so we ought not include him in our ontology of the world.
Quine is generally invoked to explain a few pieces of data: Quine’s writings, people’s memory of him, and photos. But there are lots of other explanations that don’t involve puzzling this utterly bizarre entity called Quine.
For example, all we need is a selection of atoms arranged Quine-wise to provide written reports and so on. We don’t need to commit ourselves to the existence of any strange Quinean entities. We can think that Quine as such doesn’t exist, but the thing that we commonly labeled Quine is just a collection of atoms.
Or, similarly, we can suppose that the universe was created last Thursday. On this view, Quine wasn’t created. And it’s more parsimonious—it doesn’t require as many entities; the entities that deranged non-last Thursdayists commit themselves to involve entities that have existed for many more time slices than the last Thurdayists. In fact, if we say that only this moment exists, we don’t have to believe in time at all—which seems far too strange to be part of the fabric of reality.
Or we can be solipsists. We can think that nothing exists outside of our mind. This explains the data—Quine is a fictitious purely mental entity. And this doesn’t require believing Quine.
But even if we put aside various philosophical views that rule out Quine, there are various more mundane explanations of the data. There is, of course, a nigh-omnipotent satanic pedophile ring (the proof of this will be left as an exercise for the reader). Given this, there’s all the reason in the world to fabricate Quine. Think about what Quine did.
First, Quine argued against the logical positivists. While the logical positivists were wrong in many ways, they correctly identified that one should do experiments. The globalists hate and fear doing experiments—they know that if one does experiments, they’ll verify that the earth is flat, and start working against the satanic globe-spanning pedophile ring. So the first thing Quine did served the satanic pedophile globalist elites. But Quine also argued very fundamentally against believing in extra entities. Extra entities like—that’s right—God. Thus, Quine’s entire project was to argue against the Christian resistance to the satanic pedophile ring. Given this, we’d expect the satanic pedophile ring to fabricate his existence, and given their globe-spanning power—so extreme that it allows them to convince the world that the earth isn’t flat or that Utah is a state—we’d expect them to fabricate Quine. (For more on this, see this comprehensive report).
Wikipedia says that Quine wrote the following books.
1934 A System of Logistic. Harvard Univ. Press.[51]
1951 (1940). Mathematical Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-55451-5.
1980 (1941). Elementary Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-24451-6.
1982 (1950). Methods of Logic. Harvard Univ. Press. 1980 (1953). From a Logical Point of View. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-32351-3. Contains "Two dogmas of Empiricism."
1960 Word and Object. MIT Press; ISBN 0-262-67001-1. The closest thing Quine wrote to a philosophical treatise. Ch. 2 sets out the indeterminacy of translation thesis.
1969 (1963). Set Theory and Its Logic. Harvard Univ. Press.
1966. Selected Logic Papers. New York: Random House.
1976 (1966). The Ways of Paradox. Harvard Univ. Press.
1969 Ontological Relativity and Other Essays. Columbia Univ. Press. ISBN 0-231-08357-2. Contains chapters on ontological relativity, naturalized epistemology, and natural kinds.
1970 (2nd ed., 1978). With J. S. Ullian. The Web of Belief. New York: Random House.
1986 (1970). The Philosophy of Logic. Harvard Univ. Press.
1974 (1971). The Roots of Reference. Open Court Publishing Company ISBN 0-8126-9101-6 (developed from Quine's Carus Lectures).
1981. Theories and Things. Harvard Univ. Press.
1985. The Time of My Life: An Autobiography. Cambridge, The MIT Press. ISBN 0-262-17003-5.
1987. Quiddities: An Intermittently Philosophical Dictionary. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-14-012522-1. A work of essays, many subtly humorous, for lay readers, very revealing of the breadth of his interests.
1992 (1990). Pursuit of Truth. Harvard Univ. Press. A short, lively synthesis of his thought for advanced students and general readers not fooled by its simplicity. ISBN 0-674-73951-5.
1995. From Stimulus to Science. Harvard Univ. Press. ISBN 0-674-32635-0.
2004. Quintessence: Basic Readings from the Philosophy of W V Quine. Harvard Univ. Press.
2008. Confessions of a Confirmed Extensionalist and Other Essays. Harvard Univ. Press.
But one person surely can’t write that many books. So Quine can’t exist! However, we’d expect fabrications by the globalist pedophile elites to produce lots of books—they are nothing if not a model of efficiency. Thus, what we might call the global pedophile fabrication hypothesis (GPFH) very parsimoniously explains the otherwise puzzling data.
Note, Quine wrote about “Ontological Relativity.” Ontological relativity—that’s right, the idea that what exists is relative. The globalists tell people that—hence the spread of post-modernism—so that people don’t recognize the objective truth of the nigh-omnipotent global pedophile elite.
This article describes Quine as
“In all these conversations he was good-humored, open, laconically funny, and very warm. I found it amazing that someone with so rigorous a mind could be so welcoming and open to all sorts of topics,” she said.
One finds similar descriptions of Kim Jong Un in North Korea. Classic propaganda.
Now, I know what you’re thinking: if Quine is fake, who is this?
An actor who played Quine, duh! We know that there are such things as actors, so that’s more parsimonious.
All in all, the Quine theory is just bad. It’s unparsimonious, requires believing in all sorts of fictitious entities, and lacks explanatory power. It should be dispensed with immediately.