Certain issues in philosophy of science (having to do with observation and the definition of a theory's empirical import) had been... misconstrued as issues in philosophy of logic and of language. With respect to modality, I hold the exact opposite: important philosophical problems concerning language have been misconstrued as relating to the content of science and the nature of the world. This is not at all new, but is the traditional nominalist line.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Money, which represents the prose of life, and which is hardly spoken of in parlors without an apology, is, in its effects and law...s, as beautiful as roses.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
My companion assumes to know my mood and habit of thought, and we go on from explanation to explanation, until all is said that wo...rds can, and we leave matters just as they were at first, because of that vicious assumption.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
All the universe over, there is but one thing, this old Two- Face, creator-creature, mind-matter, right-wrong, of which any propos...ition may be affirmed or denied.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »