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5. Theory of Logic / E. Structures of Logic / 4. Variables in Logic

1618	We study bound variables not to know reality, but to know what reality language asserts [Quine]
	Full Idea: We look to bound variables in connection with ontology not in order to know what there is, but in order to know what a given remark or doctrine, ours or someone else's, says there is.
	From: Willard Quine (On What There Is [1948], p.15)