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)
“A man’s idea in a card game is war—cruel, devastating and pitiless. A lady’s idea of it is a combination of larceny, embezzlement and burglary.”
—Finley Peter Dunne (1867–1936)
“But since ‘tis only Fred,
Who was alive and is dead,
There’s no more to be said.”
—Unknown. On Prince Frederick (l. 11–13)
“No philosopher understands his predecessors until he has re-thought their thought in his own contemporary terms.”
—Sir Peter Frederick Strawson (b. 1919)