Famous quotes containing the words peter frederick strawson, peter, frederick and/or strawson:
“To refer is not to assert, though you refer in order to go on to assert.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)
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—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
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Bowed with her fourscore years and ten;
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She took up the flag the men hauled down;”
—John Greenleaf Whittier (1807–1892)
“To refer is not to assert, though you refer in order to go on to assert.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)