Truth Quotes

"Meaning is not private or subjective"

"Truth requires fidelity to evidence"

"We must distinguish appearance from reality"

"Truth is stable and objective"

"Truth emerges through dialogue and debate"

"Natural facts alone cannot determine moral truth."

"Facts about human needs ground moral truths."

"Goodness is an objective feature of the world."

"Moral facts are discovered, not invented."

"Moral language describes real features of the world."

"Moral truth exists independently of our feelings about it."

"The virtues reflect deep truths about human nature."

"We should not dismiss the explanatory challenges posed by consciousness as mere illusions."

"Consciousness deserves to be treated as a fundamental phenomenon, not derivative or epiphenomenal."

"We should be cautious about assuming that consciousness can be fully explained in purely physical terms."

"We must take the first-person perspective seriously as a source of data about consciousness."

"We must avoid the temptation to dismiss consciousness as merely epiphenomenal or illusory."

"The hard problem cannot be solved by eliminating consciousness or reducing it away."

"The hard problem shows that some aspects of reality cannot be fully captured by objective, scientific methods."

"The study of consciousness reminds us that much remains unknown about ourselves and our world."

"The nature of consciousness suggests that reality has dimensions we have yet to fully appreciate."

"The ghost in the machine is not as problematic as Descartes thought."

"Mental representation is as real as anything else in nature."

"Reductionism about psychology is both tempting and ultimately misguided."

"Psychological laws are not reducible to physical laws."

"Minds are not fundamentally different in kind, but in degree of complexity."

"Consciousness involves more than mere information processing."

"The mind is both a physical system and a system of meanings."

"Consciousness may be an emergent property of complex systems."

"The explanatory success of psychology vindicates our ordinary concepts."