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1628 | If physical objects are a myth, they are useful for making sense of experience [Quine] |
Full Idea: The myth of physical objects is epistemologically superior to most in that it has proved more efficacious than other myths as a device for working a manageable structure into the flux of experience. | |
From: Willard Quine (Two Dogmas of Empiricism [1953], p.44) |