Strawson, Peter Frederick

"Persons are beings who can engage in rational deliberation and moral reflection."

"The world as we know it is inseparable from the perspectives of knowing subjects."

"Language enables the development of increasingly sophisticated forms of thought."

"The analysis of ordinary language reveals the fundamental structure of human thought."

"Persons are characterized by their capacity to care about others."

"The concept of a person is not to be analysed in terms of the continuing identity of a physical body."

"Persons are not merely physical objects; they are fundamental particulars in our conceptual scheme."

"To understand language is to understand the forms of life it expresses."

"Our ordinary concept of a material object cannot be reduced to sense-data alone."

"The identification of particulars requires a framework of basic particulars."

"Ordinary language contains the wisdom of centuries embedded within it."

"Metaphysics is not something to be abandoned, but reformed through conceptual analysis."

"The distinction between particulars and universals is fundamental to thought itself."

"To think of oneself as a person is to think of oneself in a shared human framework."

"Language and reality are bound together in ways that defy simple reduction."

"The problem of other minds dissolves when we recognize persons as basic particulars."

"Bodies and persons cannot be separated in our conceptual understanding of human beings."

"Philosophical confusion often arises from misunderstanding our ordinary concepts."

"The self is not a bundle of perceptions but a unified subject of experience."

"Descriptive metaphysics reveals the structure of our fundamental conceptual scheme."

"We must take seriously the way ordinary people actually think and speak."

"Identity through time requires criteria that go beyond physical continuity."

"The world as we conceive it depends on the concepts we bring to it."

"Persons possess both mental and physical properties in an irreducible way."

"Understanding ourselves requires understanding how we fit into the social world."

"Logical form does not always match grammatical form in meaningful ways."

"The quest for certainty often blinds us to what we already know."

"Human beings are fundamentally social creatures in their very conceptual nature."

"The asymmetry between first-person and third-person perspectives is crucial to personhood."

"We cannot think of consciousness without thinking of embodied persons."