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entities enter our conception only ascultural posits. The myth of physicalobjects is epistemologically superior tomost in that it has proved moreefficacious than other myths as adevice for working a manageablestructure into the flux of experience.”And also: “Moreover, the abstractentities which are the substance ofmathematics – ultimately classes andclasses of classes and so on up – areanother posit in the same spirit.Epistemologically, these are myths onthe same footing with physical objectsand gods, neither better nor worseexcept for differences in the degree towhich they expedite our dealings withsense experience.” Both quotationsare taken from Quine’s seminal essay“Two Dogmas of Empiricism,” one ofthe most foundational pieces in themodern philosophies of science and

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