"Doorbells are like a magic game, Or the grab-bag at a fair -- You never know when you hear one ring Who may be waiting there."

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English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with elements of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.

— Willard Van Orman Quine