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Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.
Certainly, then, ordinary language is not the last word: in
principle it can everywhere be supplemented and improved upon, an
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Our common stock of words embodies all the distinctions men have found worth drawing, and the connections they have found worth ma ...
Conceptual relativism is a heady and exotic doctrine, or would be if we could make good sense of it. The trouble is, as so often i ...
For precisely when concepts fail one,
Words are found at the right time.
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than what the imagination alone is eve ...
Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
It is impossible to dissociate language from science or science from language, because every natural science always involves three ...
Concepts are, so to speak, problem-solving devices, the internal equivalent of technologies; they are the technologies of the mind ...
I philosophize from the vantage point only of our own
provincial conceptual scheme and scientific epoch, true; but I know no
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