P. F. Strawson

"Part of my aim is to exhibit some general and structural features of the conceptual scheme in terms of which we think about particular things."

"The distinction between identifying reference and uniquely existential assertion is something quite undeniable. The sense in which the existence of something answering to a definite description used f…"

"Peter Frederick Strawson was an Oxford-based philosopher whose career spanned the second half of the twentieth century. He wrote most notably about the philosophy of language, metaphysics, epistemolog…"

"It remains to mention some of the ways in which people have spoken misleadingly of logical form. One of the commonest of these is to talk of ' the logical form' of a statement; as if a statement could…"

"Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic."

"There is a massive central core of human thinking which has no history — or none recorded in histories of thought; there are categories and concepts which, in their most fundamental character, change …"

"Metaphysics has a long and distinguished history, and it is consequently unlikely that there are any new truths to be discovered in descriptive metaphysics. But this does not mean that the task of des…"

"man who contradicts himself may have succeeded in exercising his vocal chords. But from the point of view of imparting information, of communicating facts it is as if he had never opened his mouth. He…"