Monday, May 08, 2006

Verification

The truth-value of any statement depends on verifying or falsifying background beliefs of some kind. And yes, it is also true of the previous statement as well as the present one.

Saturday, May 06, 2006

The Usual Self-Contradiction

"Truth isn't merely truth with respect to some standpoint. Trying to explain truth-from-a-standpoint itself involves the notion of objective truth beyond all standpoints."

Alvin Plantinga

Friday, May 05, 2006

Ideas

The nature of ideas is perhaps the central problem of philosophy.

Josiah Royce

Monday, May 01, 2006

The Sides of Understanding

"Anyone who knows only their own side of the case doesn't know much about it."

John Stuart Mill

Friday, April 28, 2006

Inquiring Minds Want To Know

What most people want to know
is usually none of their business.

Absent-Mundaneness

It's easier to fight for principles
than to live up to them.

Manifest Clarity

The clearer you are
about what you want,
the more power you have.