Famous Quotes - Tags - Philosophical Method

  • Any effort in philosophy to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty... More
  • Certainly ordinary language has no claim to be the last word, if there is such a thing. It... More
  • For this reason I think it might be better to use, for this way of doing philosophy, some less... More
  • I feel ruefully sure, also, that one must be at least one sort of fool to rush in over ground so... More
  • It is characteristic of the epistemological tradition to present us with partial scenarios and... More
  • My general opinion about this doctrine is that it is a typically scholastic, view, attributable,... More
  • No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own... More
  • Philosophy aims at the logical clarification of thoughts. Philosophy is not a body of doctrine... More
  • So far we have been going firmly ahead, feeling the firm ground of prejudice glide away beneath... More
  • The beginning of sense, not to say wisdom, is to realize that ‘doing an action,’ as used in... More
  • There is no one kind of thing that we ‘perceive’ but many different kinds, the number being... More
  • What I shall have to say here is neither difficult nor contentious; the only merit I should like... More
  • ‘What is truth?’ said jesting Pilate, and would not stay for an answer. Pilate was in advance... More

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