![]() ![]() Moritz Schlick, "Positivism and Realism", p. e cannot by philosophical analysis decide whether anything is real, but only what it means to say that it is real." "It is the peculiar business of philosophy to ascertain and make clear the meaning of statements and questions. "he point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it."īertrand Russell, "Particulars, Predicates, and Relations", p. ![]() "The process of sound philosophizing, to my mind, consists mainly in passing from those obvious, vague, ambiguous things, that we feel quite sure of, to something precise, clear, definite, which by reflection and analysis we find is involved in the vague thing that we started from, and is, so to speak, the real truth of which that vague thing is a sort of shadow."īertrand Russell, "Facts and Propositions", p. Please send any additions for this page to Thanks!įor helpful additions, thanks to: Brian Keane. ![]()
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