"If I saw indirect explanatory benefit in positing sensibilia, possibilia, spirits, a Creator, I would joyfully accord them scientific status too, on a par with such avowedly scientific posits as quarks and black holes. What then have I banned under the name of prior philosophy?"
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Willard van Orman Quine, "Naturalism; Or, Living Within One's Means" (1995)
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