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11. Knowledge Aims / C. Knowing Reality / 2. Phenomenalism
18209 We can never translate our whole language of objects into phenomenalism [Quine]
     Full Idea: There is no likelihood that each sentence about physical objects can actually be translated, however deviously and complexly, into the phenomenalistic language.
     From: Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948], p.18), quoted by Penelope Maddy - Naturalism in Mathematics III.2