Hold come what may
"Hold come what may" is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine. Beliefs that are "held come what may" are beliefs one is unwilling to give up, regardless of any evidence with which one might be presented.
Hold come what may - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Phrase referring to deeply held beliefs " Hold come what may " is a phrase popularized by logician Willard Van Orman Quine . Beliefs that are "held come what may" are beliefs one is unwilling to give up, regardless of any evidence with which one might be presented. [ 1 ] Quine held that any belief can be held come what may, so long as one makes suitable adjustments to other beliefs. In other words, all beliefs are rationally revisable ("no statement is immune to revision"). He used this to reject the distincti
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