Philosophy Quotes

"To be a person is to occupy a role in the space of reasons."

"The synthetic-analytic distinction is not absolute but relative to a conceptual system."

"The problem of universals arises from a confused picture of the relationship between language and reality."

"The given presents itself as objective, but its objectivity is a function of our categories."

"Being conscious is being subject to normative constraints."

"The manifest image is not illusory, though it may be incomplete."

"The space of reasons and the causal order must be reconciled."

"The logical structure of sentences reflects the logical structure of facts."

"The distinction between the mental and the physical is not ontological but conceptual."

"The covering law model is fundamental to understanding causal explanation."

"Metaphysical statements often lack empirical content."

"Determinism in science depends on the laws we accept."

"The structure of explanation mirrors the structure of logic."

"Causality is a concept requiring careful analysis."

"Explanation cannot be separated from understanding."

"The world is knowable through systematic investigation."

"Laws of nature constrain possibility."

"The structure of reality mirrors the structure of logic."

"Explanation satisfies our desire to understand."

"Explanation provides rational satisfaction."

"Laws constrain the possible."

"Explanation satisfies rational curiosity."

"The fundamental principle of logic is that contradictions cannot both be true."

"Language games show us that meaning is not fixed but depends on use and context."

"Identity is not a relation that things have to themselves; it is fundamental to being itself."

"Medieval philosophers understood truth better than many modern thinkers."

"One cannot think one's way out of logical confusion; one must speak one's way out."

"Aristotle's logic remains unsurpassed in its power and clarity."

"Relatives and relations form the backbone of metaphysical understanding."

"The problem of universals has occupied philosophers since Plato without resolution."