Philosophy Quotes

"The distinction between semantics and syntax proves artificial."

"To think is to engage with a world beyond oneself."

"Twin Earth intuitions challenge internalist theories of mind."

"Objects in the world partly constitute our thoughts about them."

"Language mirrors the structure of reality it represents."

"The mind reaches into the world through intentionality."

"Consciousness involves awareness of intentional content."

"Proper function determines semantic content."

"Language use connects us to objective reality."

"Intentionality connects consciousness to reality."

"Semantic externalism revises traditional epistemology."

"Thought about abstract objects depends on their conceptual nature."

"Intentional states have conditions of satisfaction."

"Consciousness is always consciousness of something."

"Mental content supervenes on relational properties."

"Thought about possibilities requires understanding modal facts."

"The intentional stance explains cognitive attribution."

"Mental states are individuated by their representational content."

"The empiricist thinks he can get away from metaphysics by being suspicious of absolute truth claims."

"The distinction between observables and unobservables is pragmatic, not metaphysical."

"Skepticism about metaphysics is not skepticism about science."

"Empiricism demands humility about what we can know with certainty."

"Science succeeds because it makes predictions that work, not because it captures ultimate truth."

"The problem of unobservables has long been the Achilles heel of empiricism."

"The universe may be far stranger than our current theories suggest."

"Constructive empiricism offers a middle path between naive realism and radical skepticism."

"The quantum world challenges our everyday intuitions about observation and reality."

"The realist and the empiricist may disagree about metaphysics but agree on science."

"Philosophy of science requires both respect for science and independence from it."

"The debate between realism and empiricism is not merely academic."