Dummett, Michael

"The concept of natural kind terms needs revision."

"Truth in mathematics is proof, not correspondence."

"Sense cannot be wholly separated from reference."

"The category of 'substance' is a linguistic convention."

"Realism about the future is conceptually incoherent."

"Language does not describe a pre-given reality."

"The logic of ordinary language reveals hidden structure."

"Abstract entities are creatures of human invention."

"Necessary truth is relative to a formal system."

"The meaning of a statement exhausts its content."

"Realism fails because meaning cannot transcend verification."

"Intentionality must be explained in linguistic terms."

"Truth emerges through communal deliberation."

"The problem of universals shows realism's incoherence."

"The meaning of a statement lies in the method of its verification."

"Metaphysics is the attempt to understand reality as a whole."

"Truth is not independent of language; it is expressed through our conceptual schemes."

"To understand a word, we must grasp its use in the language-game."

"The law of excluded middle is not universally valid in intuitionistic logic."

"An anti-realist view denies that truth is independent of human cognition."

"Language does not mirror reality; rather, it constitutes our understanding of it."

"Frege's concept of sense and reference revolutionized our understanding of meaning."

"The verification principle demands that meaningful statements be empirically testable."

"Wittgenstein showed us that philosophy often consists of dissolving pseudo-problems."

"Mathematical truth is not discovered but created through our systems of notation."

"The meaning of a proper name is exhausted by its referent."

"Intuitionistic logic better captures the constructive nature of mathematical proof."

"Reality itself has no structure independent of our ways of carving it up."

"We must distinguish between sense and force in our utterances."

"The correspondence theory of truth requires a coherent account of what reality is."