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Full Idea
Any statement can be held true come what may, if we make drastic enough adjustments elsewhere in the system.
Gist of Idea
Any statement can be held true if we make enough adjustment to the rest of the system
Source
Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.43)
Book Ref
Quine,Willard: 'From a Logical Point of View' [Harper and Row 1963], p.43