Philosophy Concordance - online philosophical quotations

Hence, this modest conceptualism and modest realism coincide - for our knowledge (in general) arises out of apprehending particular occurrences as displaying universal structures.

Whatever it is that is signified, the signification relation arises from the interdependence of expressions within the system of language.

Philosophical trouble arises through seeing a system of rules and seeing that things do not fit it.

A series of questions arises about personal experience.

Now there is an important question which arises about goodness: Can one know an action in all its details and yet not know whether it is good?

A similar question arises about beauty.

It goes on before any question of taste arises.

But now an interesting problem arises concerning the relation between the speech act and the corresponding intentional state.

We believe that it arises from Chomsky’s current overall approach to the language faculty, the Minimalist Program (MP) (Chomsky, 1995, 2000a,b; Lasnik, 2002).

Natural selection is a falsifiable scientific explanation of how biological functionality arises, not a part of the concept of functionality itself.