Kaplan, David

"Understanding requires seeing how concepts fit together in a coherent system."

"Some metaphysical questions lack determinate answers despite our intuitions."

"The act of naming involves a kind of baptism into our conceptual scheme."

"Logical form and grammatical form often diverge in instructive ways."

"We know more than we can readily articulate about how language works."

"Skeptical scenarios teach us important lessons about the limits of thought."

"The relationship between properties and predicates is not straightforward."

"We construct much of our world through the conceptual categories we employ."

"The unity of consciousness is both a fact and a philosophical puzzle."

"Necessity can be known a priori without being trivially true."

"The meaning of life, if it has one, is not found in abstract principles."

"Our practices and conventions shape what counts as knowledge and truth."

"Philosophy should begin with puzzlement about what we thought we understood."

"The distinction between analytic and synthetic truths is less clear than it seems."

"We often know things about the world that our conceptual framework cannot express."

"The world has a structure that constrains but is not determined by our minds."

"To live well requires understanding both oneself and one's place in the world."

"Language is a shared practice that creates meaning through use and convention."

"Some of our deepest beliefs are those we are least conscious of holding."

"The nature of time remains one of philosophy's most enduring puzzles."

"What we can imagine is a guide to what is metaphysically possible."

"The mind-body problem persists despite centuries of philosophical attention."

"We should distinguish between what we know and how we know it."

"The meaning of an expression depends on its role in a systematic whole."

"Philosophical progress often consists in recognizing that an apparent problem dissolves."

"Our sense of what is real is shaped by our cognitive capacities."

"To understand anything, we must understand its place in a web of relations."

"Facts about the future are as real as facts about the past."

"We project properties onto the world that are really features of our representations."

"Clarity in thinking requires precision in language."