Edgington, Dorothy

Philosopher British Born 1941 (age 85)

Developed probabilistic approach to conditionals.

384 quotes

"Meaning is not found; it is constructed through careful reasoning."
Knowledge
"Every conditional statement is an act of creative thinking."
Creativity
"We are never truly trapped as long as we can ask 'what if?'"
Freedom
"Logic without ethics is dangerous; ethics without logic is ineffective."
Justice
"The subjunctive mood is where hope and reason meet."
Hope
"Understanding others requires understanding the worlds they imagine."
Relationships
"Language is the most precise tool we have for exploring the impossible."
Science
"We grow not by accepting what is, but by imagining what could be."
Change
"The unexamined assumption is the tyrant of the mind."
Wisdom
"Possibility thinking is the foundation of all human achievement."
Success
"In every statement lies a hidden world of implications."
Philosophy
"We are bound by language, but language sets us free."
"The greatest gift of reason is the ability to transcend immediate reality."
Courage
"Every word carries within it all the worlds it might have created."
Art
"To speak is to claim a stake in the possible."
Power
"Philosophy is the art of making the implicit explicit."
Wisdom
"We think ourselves into being through careful choice of words."
Life
"The conditional is where knowledge and imagination become one."
Knowledge
"Understanding is not about grasping what is, but envisioning what might be."
Education
"Every counterfactual is a small window into alternative selves."
"Language is how we democratize possibility."
Justice
"The subjunctive mood teaches us that reality is negotiable."
Power
"We live in the space between what is and what we imagine."
Life
"Clarity begins when we stop taking words for granted."
Wisdom
"The most revolutionary act is to imagine things differently."
Change
"In logic, as in life, the unstated assumptions matter most."
Truth
"We are creatures of conditional thought, capable of infinite revision."
Philosophy
"Every 'if then' is a promise about how the world might work."
Hope
"To understand language is to understand the limits and possibilities of thought."
Knowledge
"The subjunctive preserves human dignity by preserving human choice."
Freedom