Dummett, Michael

"Realism assumes that facts are determinate independently of human discovery."

"Anti-realism liberates us from the tyranny of mind-independent facts."

"Every statement embeds assumptions about what counts as evidence."

"The foundations of mathematics are not self-evident but depend on convention."

"Meaning emerges from the role a word plays in a linguistic community."

"Metaphysical debates often hinge on disagreements about language use."

"The bivalence principle cannot be maintained without a realist metaphysics."

"Intuition is not a reliable guide to logical truth; reasoning is paramount."

"Our conceptual schemes are products of cultural evolution, not divine revelation."

"The analytic tradition must grapple seriously with continental philosophy."

"Truth-conditions are not mysterious entities but features of our linguistic practice."

"A successful philosophy must account for the normativity of meaning."

"Language-games are the fundamental unit of linguistic meaning."

"The ineffable cannot be what philosophy seeks, for philosophy uses language."

"Quine's indeterminacy of reference challenges our naive realism about names."

"Reality resists complete conceptualization; there is always a remainder."

"Analytic philosophy must not abandon the quest for philosophical clarity."

"Moral truths, if they exist, require a special faculty of ethical perception."

"The context principle dissolves many traditional philosophical puzzles."

"Mathematics does not describe a realm of abstract objects but embodies human practices."

"Negation in intuitionistic logic has a constructive interpretation quite unlike classical negation."

"The notion of a thing-in-itself is coherent only within a realist framework."

"To grasp a concept is to master a technique within a language-game."

"Skepticism arises when we lose sight of the ordinary criteria for knowledge."

"Every philosophy tacitly assumes a metaphysics, even when denying metaphysics itself."

"The polysemy of natural language is a feature, not a bug, of human communication."

"Realism about one domain of discourse may be compatible with anti-realism about another."

"Our logical laws are not immutable truths but tools we have fashioned."

"Thought and language are inseparable; there is no private inner realm of meaning."

"The future of analytic philosophy lies in renewed engagement with aesthetics and ethics."