Let us say, then, that both the realist and the antirealist accept the results of scientific investigations as "true," on a par wi...th more homely truths.... And call this acceptance of scientific truths the "core position." What distinguishes realists from antirealists, then, is what they add onto this core position ... a third alternative emerges--and an attractive one at that. It is the core position itself, and all by itself.... Let me introduce the acronym NOA (pronounced as in "Noah"), for natural ontological attitude, and, henceforth, refer to the core position under that designation.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
English general and singular terms, identity, quantification, and the whole bag of ontological tricks may be correlated with eleme...nts of the native language in any of various mutually incompatible ways, each compatible with all possible linguistic data, and none preferable to another save as favored by a rationalization of the native language that is simple and natural to us.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Not that I think you did not love your father, But that I know love is begun by time,... And that I see, in passages of proof, Time qualifies the spark and fire of it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
If any proof were needed of the progress of the cause for which I have worked, it is here tonight. The presence on the stage of th...ese college women, and in the audience of all those college girls who will some day be the nation's greatest strength, will tell their own story to the world.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or ...constitute a proof for its existence.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Of the modes of persuasion furnished by the spoken word there are three kinds. The first kind depends on the personal character of... the speaker; the second on putting the audience into a certain frame of mind; the third on the proof, provided by the words of the speech itself.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The vices of man, as full of horror as one might suppose them to be, contain the proof (if in nothing else but their infinitely ex...pandable nature) of his taste for the infinite; only, it is a taste that often takes a wrong turn.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
On the day when a young writer corrects his first proof-sheet he is as proud as a schoolboy who has just got his first dose of pox....LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »