philosophy

"Is A=A useful? Does logic come in handy? Is math a magnificent symbolic system with which to comprehend what's around us? And is math based on A=A? Yes. Absolutely. But math and logic are... very, ver…"

"I am a vegetarian for health reasons—the health of the chicken."

"It's reasonable to offer benefits."

"The logical picture of the facts is the thought."

"Being religious equals being extremely loving, and being extremely loving equals being religious."

"...Once you entomb mathematics in an artificial language à la Hilbert, once you set up a completely formal axiomatic system, then you can forget that it has any meaning and just look at it as a game t…"

"Nazi ideology offered redemption from a national ontological crisis, to which it was attracted like a predatory shark to blood."

"After two decades of building socialism in the USSR there is no reason for anybody to be a homosexual."

"The rainforest is being sacrificed on the altar of free trade with Europe"

"Put in a nut-shell, my thesis amounts to this. The repeated attempts made by Rudolf Carnap to show that the demarcation between science and metaphysics coincides with that between sense and nonsense h…"

"Being a part of the show, is nothing less than a compliment. This show has taken us all to a new height; we will miss each other a lot and hope to work with each other in the future as well. The show …"

"It was already obvious that every hard and demanding adaptation would be falling to the girls. Not to the boys — who were all like that anyway. The boys could just go on being boys. It was the girls w…"

"I think you can see this is not an innocent developer being attacked and abused by some YouTuber out to profiteer from their hard work. This is a developer who has repeatedly acted in an underhanded w…"

"The things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice."

"There is no vice that doth so cover a man with shame as to be found false and perfidious. And therefore Montaigne saith prettily, when he inquired the reason, why the word of the lie should be such a …"

"Increasingly, calls for moderation, compromise, and the slow march through institutions can be seen as treacherous and grotesquely inadequate. With the planet in the throes of dramatic climate change,…"

"For me, it meant not being able to go to school, hang out with friends or go to the cinema. It was almost like house arrest. Having a disability in Syria often means that you are hidden away. You conf…"

"Our tools are extensions of our purposes, and so we find it natural to make metaphorical attributions of intentionality to them; but I take it no philosophical ice is cut by such examples."

"The recent use of scientific methodologies to examine migration has added an extra, alarming dimension. DNA, whether ‘ancient’ or ‘modern’ samples , is being used to track migration. The danger, barel…"

"My use of extracts from the "Protocols of the Elders of Zion" was too much for political purity to take. It didn't matter that I had emphasised, as I do in this book, that this is not a plot by Jewish…"