Philosophy Quotes

"Language is not a private affair; it is embedded in social practice."

"Anti-realism about truth acknowledges the limits of our cognitive grasp."

"Semantics must account for how speakers actually use language in practice."

"Classical logic assumes a determinacy that the world does not always provide."

"Identity statements require criteria for their application and verification."

"Metaphysical realism assumes reality exists wholly independent of our conceptual capacities."

"The law of excluded middle is not a law of logic but an assumption about reality."

"Intuitionism rejects the infinite as a completed totality; the infinite is always in the process of becoming."

"The structure of language mirrors the structure of thought, but not of reality itself."

"Reference is not a magical relation but a function of how we use words in context."

"The aim of analysis is to clarify what we mean, not to discover hidden essences."

"Logical form is not hidden beneath the surface of language; it can be revealed through analysis."

"To doubt the external world is to doubt the very practice that gives meaning to our words."

"Necessary truths are not truths about an abstract realm but truths that hold in all possible worlds we can conceive."

"The context of utterance determines what is said and what is implicated."

"Wittgenstein's picture theory of meaning is superseded by the understanding that meaning derives from use."

"An indeterminate realm is one where truth-value gaps are possible and sometimes actual."

"The objectivity of meaning rests on the intersubjectivity of language users."

"The existence of abstract objects cannot be assumed without justification."

"Nominalism avoids commitment to abstract objects by paraphrasing claims about them."

"Every meaningful distinction must be capable of being cashed out in terms of observable difference."

"The study of language is inseparable from the study of human rationality and practice."

"What we call reality is shaped by the conceptual schemes we bring to experience."

"The meaning of a name is the object it names, but this does not exhaust its cognitive significance."

"Vagueness in language is not a defect but a feature that allows for flexibility and context-sensitivity."

"The objectivity of value depends on the possibility of rational agreement among interlocutors."

"Logical law is not a law of thought but a norm that governs correct reasoning."

"The criterion of identity for a kind of object must be determinable by linguistic practice."

"The link between language and reality is not a mirror-relation but a normative one."

"Realism about modality assumes that there are facts about what could and could not be."