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Philosophy

In philosophy, the nature of description has been an important question since Bertrand Russels classical texts (cf. Ludlow, 2007).

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Famous quotes containing the word philosophy:

    In philosophy if you aren’t moving at a snail’s pace you aren’t moving at all.
    Iris Murdoch (b. 1919)

    La superstition met le monde entier en flammes; la philosophie les éteint. Superstition sets the whole world in flames; philosophy quenches them.
    Voltaire [François Marie Arouet] (1694–1778)

    The real discovery is the one which enables me to stop doing philosophy when I want to.—The one that gives philosophy peace, so that it is no longer tormented by questions which bring itself into question.
    Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)