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Wilfrid Sellars, Science and Metaphysics. Variations on Kantian Themes, Ridgview Publishing Company, Atascadero, California [1967] 1992.

  1. Sensibility and Understanding
  2. Material Things
  3. Intentionality
  4. Truth
  5. Picturing
  6. Persons
  7. The Moral Point of View
  8. Appendix: Inner Sense

Miscellaneous Quotes

Philosophy without history of philosophy, if not empty or blind, is at least dumb. (p. 1)
Clarity is not to be confused with insight. (p. 12)
... almost everything Descartes wanted to say could have been put in Aristotelian terms ... (p. 32)
The crux of a philosophical argument often appears to be a Dedekind cut between a series of 'as I will show's and a series of 'as I have shown's. (p. 73)
Some who are a home in the desert may feel that the land of milk and honey is a jungle. (p. 77)
...technical semantics, when it has not been philosophically barren, has spawned new forms of outworn metaphysics. (p. 114)

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