Wilfrid Sellars, Science and Metaphysics. Variations on Kantian
Themes, Ridgview Publishing Company, Atascadero, California
[1967] 1992.
- Sensibility and Understanding
- Material Things
- Intentionality
- Truth
- Picturing
- Persons
- The Moral Point of View
- 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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